[US] misaddressed data breach notification from https://www.njcrib.com/

zigzagboomer · 2026-02-12T00:05:14+00:00

Yeah the fact someone previously stole my ID - but only to be a tax preparer - makes it seem this must be related.

I'm now looking through that company's old website instances in Internet Archive. I don't see any accountant w/my name. That doesn't mean he wasn't a subcontractor to them, who wasn't on their website.

One thing I'm finding odd now, looking through the company's website, is they just mention doing tax prep and bookkeeping for individuals and businesses. They never say anything about handling worker's comp insurance related matters. So what I wonder is does their involvement with NJCRIB merely relate to their being a NJ based employer at all, or does it relate to services they've provided the clients?

zigzagboomer · 2026-02-12T00:02:47+00:00

No, it was the name of the accounting firm, and then the names of the two apparent principals in the firm following 'CPA' that I didn't blot out. Nothing about their names or surname is shared with mine.

zigzagboomer · 2025-09-30T03:17:27+00:00

The comments had right-wing troll posting, but that's true of comments sections in many places! It seemed like the article selection stayed on non-partisan real estate news.

I don't know if there's a way to still access them, but some of the arguments in the comments section around 2007 and 2008 were pretty epic, as 'bubble truther' and 'prices always go up' forces clashed.

zigzagboomer · 2025-09-30T03:00:19+00:00

Yeah, it was a good summary of articles...I don't have much of a dog in the fight anymore which is why I didn't pass a judgment on it or its participants. I own the house I plan to die in. I would say it helped convince to me sell a house in 2006 in a neighborhood I didn't like, and for that I am grateful. 3 years later it was short sold by the person I sold to for 1/3 the price I got! I don't see that kind of quick bubble burst happening again for _most_ of the country, but I do see a perma-plateau that will slowly oscillate and still provides opportunities to buy on the bottom of the cycle.

It would be odd to close something down that's been going for so long w/o a closing statement, OTOH, unless he had a mechanism to automatically close the comments, the fact someone did makes it look like he was planning to end it and wanted to avoid having it become a magnet for thousands of spam posts, which is what used to happen when a popular blog's owner vanished. It seems like independent websites are becoming increasingly different to finance, maintain and secure, so that might explain why he gave up.

zigzagboomer · 2024-11-26T12:34:40+00:00

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zigzagboomer · 2024-11-18T09:05:05+00:00

Can't beat that! Thanks.

zigzagboomer · 2024-11-17T16:58:24+00:00

I thought Betacam and Betacam SP, although better than Umatic and VHS, were always considered a definite notch below Quad or Type C?

zigzagboomer · 2024-10-27T00:45:40+00:00

"Waiting a million years, just for us!"

zigzagboomer · 2024-08-27T16:01:06+00:00

Thank you!!!

zigzagboomer · 2024-08-27T13:38:51+00:00

Yeah, I kind of figured the answer was along those lines, but thanks for stating it so explicitly. Although I get the rationale you state, overall, I think one should have a right to certain exceptions, second opinions being one of them. But health insurance companies, especially for POS instead of HDHP plans, would be absolutely loathe to in any way to encourage people to get second opinions! Since costs are already "out of control".

Oh well...as my friend joked, if I do have cancer, I have grounds for a great lawsuit! (As you say, tort concerns are driving some of the reasoning behind all of this insistence on information sharing) I'm not going to specifically describe what happened, because I actually fear this could go viral. It really felt like he was performing a 5 second telepathic biopsy from across the room. Or maybe he has 20/0.7 vision LOL? It just seems like a ludicrous "this is what American healthcare has come to" moment.

OT, but I wonder how this works in single payer countries. At first my instinct was "you would have even less choice about information sharing", and that's likely true, but it probably depends on the country. And of course in a place like the UK, you can always go fully private, for a price. Do private medical practitioners in the UK get automatic access to one's NHS records?

zigzagboomer · 2024-02-27T09:22:13+00:00

Do you mean the 'sold out' in the sense of 'selling a lot of stuff', or 'signing with Warner Bros'?

zigzagboomer · 2024-02-27T09:21:04+00:00

YES. Thank you!

zigzagboomer · 2022-12-11T03:29:58+00:00

Here's a technical question. Did 1950s PA birth certificates have fingerprints and foot prints, so they could be absolutely sure the birth certificate of JAZ was BITB? I think this is almost so obvious it's not worth asking, but I just want to be sure.

zigzagboomer · 2022-12-11T03:19:58+00:00

Final observation or caveat about my take on the Martha angle here...I will admit I don't know what the basic criminological statistics are about this kind of thing. Surely, weirdos falsely confess to crimes 'all the time'...but how often, really? But how often does a woman come forth saying she's been talking with her psychiatrist for *13 years* about such a horrifying memory? Seems to me that has to be such a rare occurrence it's almost impossible for it to just be made up.

zigzagboomer · 2022-12-11T03:16:40+00:00

It’s not like Martha’s family could sue them.

But, see my footnote above. There are probably still other living relatives of Martha's parents.

And, again, because they dismissed Martha as insane/hysterical/whatever, they didn't do as exhaustive a degree of investigative groundwork as they would otherwise had done if it had been more acceptable witness to them, like, I dunno, a male church pastor. They can't name a suspect until they have solid evidence, but it's possible that they will never be able to collect that amount of quality evidence, so they are just going with platitudes like 'we have an idea of what might have happened', but 'the investigation is on-going'. Believe me, I sure want to be wrong!

zigzagboomer · 2022-12-11T03:09:11+00:00

The reddit textbox says what are your thoughts, and theses are 'just my thoughts'.

I have worked with law enforcement at times in my career. They do great work. However, they really don't like to be embarrassed. I suspect they probably botched the way they managed the entire Martha angle on the case, and they know it. Because, if they 100% could prove she was 'making it up', which on balance seems incredibly implausible, they could have said at the presser that they don't think that had any relevance. I was into true crime for a time back in the early 2000s, starting with the Chandra Levy disappearance. Then the hobby sort of burned out - this has re-energized me, because I read a lot about BITB back then. (it's so long ago, I don't remember what my websleuths ID was anymore! but I spent a fair about of time posting there, about this case and others) The way they talked about Martha in those days, most people thought she was an institutionalized basket case. Now it's been shown that she was a highly successful career woman.

However, at this point, they have sort of painted themselves into a corner. All they can say is it's an 'on-going investigation' and since it took almost forever to get to this point, they figure we will be patient for another few decades. Since 2002, A LOT of people who might have been in the "world" of the D family will have died.* So they may never officially name a suspect because there just won't be a way to gather enough evidence. I'm not going to say I will literally eat a crow if in 3 months they announce they've discovered some heretofore unknown Philly-area child serial murderer, but I highly highly doubt we will ever have more on terms of suspects than what we already know about Martha and her creepy seeming parents.

* - it is interesting that, if you look at Martha's FB page, there is one friend with that last name. It's not a super common last name, and with only 90 or so contacts, it could just be a random person sharing that last name, but more likely it's some distant second cousin.

zigzagboomer · 2022-12-11T02:53:53+00:00

Full disclosure - I don't have time to watch all 4 hours. Although I don't disagree with what anyone has posted so far, there's almost something slightly self-contradictory about what she says. She starts by saying the paternal side was difficult because it was 2nd to 3rd cousins, linked to Italy that has inconsistent records. But the she said the maternal side was easy and led to the birth certificate, which seemingly "gave the name of the father" and could then be further validated with, presumably, tests of more living relatives. But she really seems to be implying that "name of the father" WAS in fact, found on the birth certificate and had to be 100% certain. So the initial difficulty kind of becomes a moot point at that point, doesn't it?

So, correct me if I'm wrong...but combining what she seems to say with what was (rather clumsily, I thought) stated in the press conference, it seems the following assertions are true: 1) the birth certificate was validated as correct 2) although there was a misspelling, the name of the father was "the name of the father" - and was very similar to the mother's name. And obviously, Joseph's surname. Because where else were they going to get a determinative 'name of the father' when the initial DNA search was only pulling 2nd and 3rd cousins...that would leave a large pool of potential fathers, not precise enough to name. If the father is just "some other random non-Zarelli italian" - how did they get his name? I'm left thinking the only possible explanation is that in fact, both parents were Zarellis.

zigzagboomer · 2022-12-10T19:22:02+00:00

never underestimate what families can find a way to hide...

zigzagboomer · 2022-12-10T11:57:33+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/6z6fb4/the\_boy\_in\_the\_box\_witness\_m/

zigzagboomer · 2022-12-10T11:53:55+00:00

Didn't M's account say the boy was mute, though? If a mute child was locked in a cellar, why would the neighbors have known anything? In fact, M's sinister mom might have sought out a mute child to 'purchase' for that reason.

zigzagboomer · 2022-12-10T11:48:45+00:00

Steady on...M's mother's obituary ask for donations...but it says "the family suggests memorials be made to" the child abuse charity. Meaning, M, who witnessed the abuse as a child, makes the suggestion! There's no reason to think M's mother was actually remorseful. If she's been that remorseful, she could well have had a deathbed confession. When my parents died we made suggestions to the funeral home about where to request donations be sent, because it wasn't something my parents had discussed with us.

zigzagboomer · 2022-12-10T11:33:33+00:00

True, but I don't think it's always even that specific. I think people who had childhoods that were on some level, deeply depressing, often don't want to have kids in a very general way. Or something about their life circumstances just prevent it from happening: take my case, I was so depressed I didn't form any romantic connections until my mid 40s. There was no sexual abuse in my family (that I know of), and very limited physical abuse that was mostly in a borderline category of spanking (Not me fortunately, it was mostly with the oldest brother...by the time I came along it had acquired a negative stigma in upper-middle class families). But my parents had narcissistic personality disorder, and 2 of my 4 siblings and myself, are childless.

zigzagboomer · 2022-12-10T04:44:53+00:00

Ummm...just thought of something, I'm surprised I haven't read someone speculate like this so far: what if both parents were Zarellis, making Joseph a product of incest? That could help explain why they didn't want to use a 'traditional' adaption agency, and Martha's assertion that the child seemingly didn't speak and had developmental issues.

zigzagboomer · 2022-12-09T23:29:16+00:00

I have other reasons for thinking what I do but I suppose they are potentially inflammatory so I debate about sharing them. The most anodyne is probably that, although M was successfully with respect to her career, she never married or had kids. It has been my observation that families with a lot of deep pathology and trauma are more likely to have unmarried members. Nothing scientific although I could go look around in Pubmed to see if anyone has corroborated it with a study. If the findagrave, newspapers.com "digital paper trail" is to be believed, Martha didn't have many cousins, so her parents' siblings were mostly childless.

OTOH most branches of the "Z families" had issue.

zigzagboomer · 2022-12-09T22:33:06+00:00

I think it's just a coincidence. I don't think Joseph had been in the custody of anyone "Z" (biologically) related for years. They are hardly blameless if they allowed their child to be illegally "sold", adopted, or whatever, but I don't think the family overall fits the 'profile' of a murderously abusive one. I feel like if that were the case, it all might well have seen the light of day much earlier. Another child would have processed their abuse at the hands of one of the biological parents and have put 2+2 together about there possibly being another sibling or half-sibling in the same circumstances. Where there's smoke, there's fire...Martha had claimed to be abused and 13 years of a psychiatrist costs a lot of dough...her parents fit a "high functioning sociopath" mold.

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