David Twiddy reports:
Two former University of Central Missouri students have been charged with stealing the identities of thousands of their classmates and faculty with the goal of the information.
A federal grand jury in Kansas City indicted Joseph A. Camp, 26, of New York, and Daniel J. Fowler, 21, of Kansas City, with conspiracy, three counts of computer intrusion, a count of intercepting electronic communication and two counts of aggravated identity theft. The indictment was unsealed on Monday after Fowler was arrested and made his initial court appearance.
Camp has been in custody in New York since his arrest last December for allegedly trying to sell the student and faculty records to an undercover FBI agent.
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Authorities claim in the indictment that, during the fall of 2009, Camp and Fowler developed a computer virus that would allow them to remotely control infected computers. They allegedly disseminated the virus through infected e-mails, an infected USB drive and by manually loading the virus onto university computers in public areas — even attempting to infect the computer of the university president. The infected computers were programmed to monitor the keystrokes of users and send the information to computers in Fowler’s dorm room at the university, prosecutors said.
Read more in the Kansas City Business Journal.
Also in 2009, UCM notified 7000 students that two computer reports containing their names, Social Security numbers, and dates of birth were in two paper reports that were stolen. A number of students had their information misused and a UCM police officer and his wife were subsequently arrested in that case.