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A bank worker was caught after his attempt to steal £1.2 million using customer details apprehended from his employer's computer system. According to press reports,Ansir Khan, an employee of Carter Allen Private Bank in Sheffield, wrote down stolen customer details in a complex code to avoid detection.

INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana’s unemployment agency accidentally sent the social security numbers of 4,500 out-of-work Hoosiers to the wrong companies. The Department of Workforce Development sends about 100,000 companies lists of people who are drawing jobless benefits against their accounts once a month. The agency says due to a printing error, 1,200 companies received the wrong social security numbers.

THIRTEEN prisoners, including two serial rapists, are to claim compensation of up to £30,000 each over a computer memory stick lost by a firm working for the Home Office. The men, who have a sickening tally of offences, say the loss of the data stick containing personal details is a breach of their human rights. Among the claimants is Patrick Simms, 44, who was jailed for life in 2000 after he imprisoned a Japanese student and used her as a sex slave.

Washington, D.C. — The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) has announced today that it has fined Centaurus Financial, Inc. (CFI), of Orange County, CA, $175,000 for its failure to protect certain confidential customer information. Centaurus was also ordered to provide notifications to affected customers and their brokers and to offer these customers one year of credit monitoring at no cost.

By Chad Bray Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- A former information/technical analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and his brother were arrested Friday in an alleged identity theft scheme. Curtis L. Wiltshire, who was terminated by the New York Fed in February, has been charged in a three-count complaint with bank fraud, fraud in connection with identification documents and aggravated identity theft, while his brother, Kenneth Wiltshire, has been separately charged with mail fraud and aggravated identity theft.

Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has charged a Troy resident with identity theft — using social security numbers to open fraudulent credit cards. Walter Healey, 63, was an employee with the Department of Taxation and Finance unit. He allegedly used his position to take taxpayers information from tax department files and used that information to apply for and obtain credit cards. He allegedly has more than 90 fraudulent credit cards and other lines of credit with more than 20 banks. Unpaid charges of over $200,000 are associated with those accounts.

A public-access computer at a Prague hotel contained the passport numbers and itineraries of about 200 leaders from EU member states, the Finnish News Agency (STT) learned on Friday. The list includes Tarja Halonen, the Finnish president, and Matti Vanhanen (centre), the prime minister. The Czech Republic, the country holding the EU's rotating presidency, said the data had been removed from the hotel computer and that the incident had been caused by human error.

A health trust did not take adequate steps to prevent the loss of a memory stick with data on 6,360 prisoners and ex-prisoners, a report has said. The USB stick was being used to back up clinical databases at HMP Preston when it was lost on 30 December. A report found that human error was to blame, but that procedures on data security had not been adhered to. NHS Central Lancashire said it had taken action and reminded staff of their responsibilities.

Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. sued Hilton Hotels Corp. late Thursday, accusing its rival of using stolen confidential Starwood documents to develop a new luxury hotel chain.

The former Mitsubishi UFJ Securities Co. employee suspected of having sold personal data on more than 49,000 clients is believed to have accessed the firm's client database using his colleague's ID and password, sources said Thursday. The Metropolitan Police Department suspects the former employee, 44, used another employee's ID and password to conceal his actions. Before he was dismissed Wednesday, the man was deputy head of the computer system department at the securities firm in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo.