Ademola Ismaila Adegoke, 43, of Accra, Ghana, was sentenced this week to 102 months in prison for using stolen credit card numbers to steal more than $400,000 from U.S. citizens. U.S. District Court Judge Liam O’Grady also ordered Adegoke to serve two years of supervised release following his prison term. The defendant has agreed to…
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County employee resigns after laptop stolen
When the economy’s tough, people generally do not want to resign from their jobs, but in the wake of an embarrassing data breach, Carol Vaughn reports: The Accomack County employee whose county-issued laptop computer was stolen from a Las Vegas hotel room earlier this month has resigned. The information technology department employee, who was supervised…
MetLife reports employee snooped on files of public figures
MetLife, who reported in August that an employee had been sharing disability insurance applications with an unauthorized individual, recently received more bad news. According to a letter they sent to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office, the third-party provider whose database they use to run searches on individuals in the course of their business recently…
Midtown Motors’ login to TransUnion compromised, credit reports accessed
Credit reporting agency TransUnion has notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that compromise of customer Midtown Motors’ login information resulted in the unauthorized access to an unspecified number of individuals’ credit reports. In their letter, TransUnion states that the compromise was no fault of the customer’s (then how did it happen?), and TransUnion will…
UK: Man pleads guilty to spam and computer viruses
A Scottish man pleaded guilty today (Friday 22 October) to Computer Misuse charges in connection with an international operation. The joint investigation by Metropolitan Police and the Finnish authorities began in 2006 into an organized group carrying out a sophisticated e-crime by writing new computer viruses that could by-pass anti-virus products. Tens of thousands of…
Surrey RCMP and Vancouver Police Department disrupt credit card fraud ring
An extensive number of charges are being considered against individuals in the Lower Mainland after the Surrey RCMP and the Vancouver Police Department teamed up to put a stop to a fraud ring operating out of Vancouver. The Surrey RCMP Combined Forces Identity Theft Team (CFITT) began a Fraud investigation after receiving information regarding a…