[privacy] Identity Theft Fears At HUD

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Via The Smoking Gun.

[snip]

A Department of Housing and Urban Development employee suspected of
bank fraud and identity theft had access to "sensitive information" at
the agency, including material stored on the Blackberrys and computers
of Secretary Alphonso Jackson and other agency brass, as well as
separate "personal client information housed on HUD computers."

Following the June 26 arrest of Tracyee Martan for passing a phony
cashier's check at a Maryland bank, federal agents secured her HUD
office "in order to prevent any further access by Martan to sensitive
information," according to a search warrant affidavit. Court filings do
not indicate whether Martan is suspected of misusing confidential HUD
information, or the nature of the "personal client information" housed
on the federal agency's computer system.

A search of Martan's Washington, D.C. apartment turned up "numerous
boxes of consumer goods" that "are believed to be the fruits of a
credit card, bank fraud, identity theft scheme," the affidavit notes.

[snip]

More here:
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0710061hud1.html

- ferg


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