Residents allege the city’s troubled unemployment agency failed to block thieves filing claims using stolen or inaccurate data.
The Hoya is reporting a major security breach at Georgetown University which exposed the personal information of nearly 40,000 students and faculty to identity theft. An unencrypted hard drive containing billing information, including Social Security numbers, was stolen on Jan. 3 from the Office of Student Affairs. The information pertained to students enrolled at the university from 1998 through 2006, as well as some faculty and staff members. The theft is under investigation by D.C….
Welcome back to work, Washington. We know many of our regular readers are off celebrating Independence Day already, taking vacation time for a few days to make this upcoming middle-of-the-week holiday less of an inconvenience. For those of you still at your desks, we salute your dedication to the American work ethic. For those of you who’ll be heading to the airport some time this week, we were going to beg to be stuffed in…
Good morning, Washington. Enjoy that cool temperature outside while it lasts (60° right now!), because the heat will be back before you know it (i.e. this weekend), so much so that you’ll probably need to switch on the old A/C come Sunday. Mayor Fenty’s nominee for Schools Chancellor, Michelle Rhee, knows a little something about sitting around in expectation of feeling the heat herself right now — there’s the questions about the secret way Fenty…
Good morning, Washington. You should check out DCMatt’s photos of last night’s lightning. The flashes prompted me to race home from a happy hour, hoping to escape what seemed like an inevitable deluge — but the downpour never came. And, looking at the forecast, it seems that it’s not about to: the weather should continue to be pleasant through the end of the week. VA Loses More Veteran Data: It’s happened again. WTOP reports…
From our mailbag comes the following from a DCist reader: I thought I’d write about something that happened last night. I took a cab from Adams Morgan to Woodley Park (short hop, but it was 11, and I wanted to be safe) — I was sending messages on my blackberry, and the cab driver asked me if I saw his cell phone, I looked around under the seat, and didn’t, then he asked if I…
Yes, you read correctly — early this morning, there was a small fire on the Orange Line tracks between the East Falls Church and Ballston Metro stations. Trains were stopped for 10 to 15 minutes as firefighters got the fire under control. The Orange Line is now back to running on schedule. No mention, yet, as to what caused the morning pyrotechnics. Montgomery County Police Restricted from Message Board: WJLA is reporting that Montgomery County…
We’ve always somewhat hearted WTOP Investigative Reporter Mark Segraves. He’s the guy who recently broke the story that District resources are used to cover the costs of the many motorcades that pass through the city — $1.5 million last year alone, $10 million since 2000, and 40 D.C. police officers and 40 cruisers each time. Today he’s back with more interesting investigative pieces. Voting and Identity Theft in the District: According to a WTOP investigation,…
Howard County police have arrested an area man who made creative use of a list of NFL players phone numbers to bilk some of the games superstars out of a few thousand dollars. And while he’s not crowing about it on his website (it actually doesn’t appear as if he’s doing much at all with his site), it appears that the scam was uncovered by Oakland defensive lineman Warren Sapp. According to the Post, Lewis…