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City Employees Get Bad PayPal Bills In ID Theft Case
From: Jeffrey Walton <noloader () gmail com>
Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2011 16:32:57 -0400
This one might unfold with interesting details.... http://www.wtae.com/news/28727534/detail.html PITTSBURGH -- Water cooler talk led Pittsburgh police to discover that at least 29 city employees -- including some police employees -- were victims of identity theft, apparently through bad PayPal accounts. "Several city employees were talking amongst each other," Sgt. Michael Del Cimmuto said. "One made mention that they were a recent victim of identity theft. The other one commented that they, too, were a victim of identity theft -- at which point we circulated information and requested that everyone check their accounts and see if they were also victims." The employees said they got bills for PayPal purchases that they never made, with transaction amounts ranging from $40 to $3,000. ... _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () datalossdb org) Archived at http://seclists.org/dataloss/ Unsubscribe at http://datalossdb.org/mailing_list Learn encryption strategies that manage risk and shore up compliance. Download Article 1 of CREDANT Technologies' The Essentials Series: Endpoint Data Encryption That Actually Works http://credant.com/campaigns/realtime2/gap-LP1/
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