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Deputies in Texas, Police in Florida Scammed Provided access to secure database used by law enforcement According to a complaint filed by the U.S. attorney's office for the Southern District of Florida in Miami. five men ranging in age from nineteen to twenty four are accused of scamming their way into databases used by law enforcement. . . Read
Former County Clerk Released
from Prison According to federal prosecutors, the Jackson County, Mississippi Chancery Clerk was the recipient of a kickback, valued at $60,000, in exchange for providing the county's former chief land appraiser a contract with Mainline Corporation (Jupiter, Florida) to digitize and place county land records on a database. Read More
Florida Governor Jeb Bush's Social Security remains on websites worldwide months after it was removed from official County website.
National Land
Title Association President Denounces Bulk Sale of Public Records
Identity details found on state siteSocial Security numbers among information available in online filings
July 16, 2006
Until Friday morning, the secretary of state's Web site was a potential gold mine for would-be identity thieves. More than 2 million documents Suits, Charges Plague State Technology Vendors A long list of suits and even criminal charges have been brought against many of the best known government technology providers. Police fear being hunted down with realty recordsCounty mulls obscuring parts of online databaseJul. 15, 2006 Charlotte Observer County Recorder Charged with 19 Felony Counts Frances Deane, the county
recorder for Clark County, Nevada was charged with 19 felony counts for allegedly selling 32 years worth of real estate documents.
County Website
Contains Personal Information According to Reagan Dunn, a councilman for the county. "Clearly this is an avenue that people have been using to perpetrate the identity theft," Dunn said. "It's not thousands of records; it's actually millions of records, millions of pages of records that we have online here in our index. NY County Publishes Sensitive Information Online www.sourceoftitle.com. "Identity theft is a big problem for my office," said Robert Clifford, speaking on behalf of the county's district attorney's office. "I am surprised the numbers are available on a county Website. It's not only disheartening, it's crazy." Get the article
Objections to county's practice of posting personal info on Web Newsday.com
Sen. Charles J. Fuschillo Jr., who heads the Senate Consumer Protection Committee and has authored legislation to protect consumers from identity theft, called on the county clerk's office Wednesday to remove the information from the Internet. Get the article New
Allegations Hurled Against FL County Appraiser
Allegations continue to mount against Bob
Day, the suspended Osceola County property appraiser, from former
employees who allege he employed them to repair his home while they were being
paid by the federal government and that he threatened to fire employees for
insubordination over denied personal requests. NY County Seeks to
Increase Mortgage Filing Fee The Suffolk County Legislature petitioned for
an increase in mortgage filing fees from the New York State Legislature on
June 19, 2006. The increase would be used to help off-set the county's
projected 2007 deficit. According to the petition, the county is asking for an
increase of $100 per filing, raising the price from its current rate of $75 to
$175. This cost would be consistent with all documents, regardless of the
number of pages contained within the filing.
Online Records: Gold Mine for Thieves, Stalkers, Terrorists 23-year-old Drug User Shows Police How He Used County Website to Steal Identities By Tom Zeller Jr., New York Times PHOENIX--In a Scottsdale police station last December, a 23-year-old methamphetamine user showed officers a new way to steal identities. His arrest had been unremarkable. This metropolitan area, which includes Scottsdale and Phoenix, has the highest rate of identity theft complaints in the nation, according to the Federal Trade Commission. Even members of the Scottsdale police force have had their identities stolen. But the suspect showed officers something they had not seen before. Browsing a government Web site, he pulled up a local divorce document listing the parties' names, addresses and bank account numbers, along with scans of their signatures. With a common software program and some check stationery, the document provided all he needed to print checks in his victims' names--and it was all made available, with some fanfare, by the county recorder's office. The site had thousands of them
Judge orders removal of deeds from Web
James F. Norton III filed suit in the Chancery Division of Monmouth County Superior Court, arguing that publication of his Social Security number would expose him to financial identity theft. You have the right to demand your local government keep your sensitive information off the Internet.
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Data exposure: Counties
across the U.S. posting sensitive info online
AP Names Article County Records Series "Investigative Report of the Year" In making the award, judges from Texas Associated Press Managing Editors association described the Fort Bend Herald public records series as: "A remarkable look at how a zealous county clerk has been selling public records and putting people's lives on the Internet, raising important issues about the balance between the public's right to know and the right to privacy" Read more and find links to the Fort Bend Herald series. Sensitive: When private info is compromised, the public needs to know - quickly
A Lansing
State Journal editorial Ingham County Register of Deeds Paula Johnson has moved quickly to protect people's Social Security numbers from falling into criminal hands. Privacy for Pets? Yes. Privacy for People? No Texas Attorney General and U.S. Federal Court Rulings News for Public Officials Registering to Vote May Lead to Identity Theft Mar 22nd - 2:30pm
Mark Segraves, WTOP Radio
WASHINGTON -- Could registering to vote put you at risk for identity theft? The possibility is very likely in one local jurisdiction, a WTOP investigation has found. WTOP was able to obtain the Social Security numbers of registered voters in the District of Columbia including the Social Security number of Mayor Tony Williams and several members of the City Council. Listen Online Counties Blow CIA Cover David Bloys - News for Public Officials March 14th, 2006
The Chicago Tribune reported last week on how they easily identified and tracked over 2600 CIA employees using the services of an unnamed Internet data miner. While the Tribune did not name the source company, there are thousands of companies from all over the world mining the online records. Data miners use the records published online by local, state and federal officials to create dossiers on U.S. citizens. John Crewdson of the Tribune makes this clear in Data mining easy as using credit card Crewsdon states, "The Chicago Tribune computer searches that produced the identities, workplaces, post office box addresses and telephone numbers of hundreds of CIA employees here and abroad relied entirely on public records, not private data. The data the Tribune used were derived from telephone listings, real estate transactions, voting records, legal judgments, property tax records . . . Read the article |
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