Another insider was unable to resist the temptation to take advantage of his access to reams of personal information and sold the information belonging to 2.3 million consumers to a data broker, who then sold it to marketing companies.
A senior database administrator a subsidiary of Fidelity National Information Services stands accused of swiping the information [...]

A new study by the GAO, otherwise known as the Government Accounting Office, shows that there are serious weaknesses in the laws that govern the use of social security numbers by private agencies and organizations.
The laws currently on the books seem to be intended primarily to govern the way that social security numbers are used [...]

Give a criminal a resource — just about any resource — and he will probably find away to use it for some type of criminal activity.
This time, it’s criminals that are already behind bars who have managed to pull off a clever scam using the telephone.
An inmate in jail will make a collect call to [...]