BofA call center worker pleads guilty to data theft

A Bank of America call center employee has pleaded guilty to charges that he stole sensitive client information and then tried to sell it for cash. Brian Matty Hagen pleaded guilty last week to one count of bank fraud. According to court filings he allegedly recorded customer account information when BofA customers called him for [...]

HP, Symantec warn employees after laptop thefts

HP, Symantec warn employees after laptop thefts By Robert McMillan , IDG News Service , 12/11/2008 Technology vendors Hewlett-Packard and Symantec are warning employees that their names and Social Security numbers may have recently fallen into criminal hands following two separate laptop thefts. HP said Thursday that at least several thousand employee records were contained [...]

Data Breaches at State, Local Agencies Expose Data about Millions

    October 21, 2008 • by William Jackson Data breaches at state and local government agencies exposed the personal information of nearly 3.8 million Americans in the first three quarters of this year, according to the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse. Most of the exposures came from a single incident in July at the Colorado Division [...]