Confidential council papers containing residents’ bank details and addresses have been found dumped outside a town hall. The documents also include information about an investigation into flytipping, a bill to a letting agents for cockroach extermination and a document relating to a fraud interview. Read more in The Argus
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‘The Analyzer’ Pleads Guilty in $10 Million Bank Hacking Case
Ehud Tenenbaum, aka “The Analyzer,” quietly pleaded guilty last week to a single count of bank-card fraud for his role in a sophisticated computer-hacking scheme that federal officials say scored $10 million from U.S. banks. The Israeli hacker was arrested in Canada last year for allegedly stealing about $1.5 million from Canadian banks. But before…
Florida man sentenced for passport and ID theft charges
Jeffrey H. Sloman, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and James Foster, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Department of State, Diplomatic Security Service, announced that defendant Gregory Victor Revson, 49, of Islamorada, FL, was sentenced on August 20, 2009, by U.S. District Court Judge Ursula Ungaro to 75 months of imprisonment,…
4 years in prison for hospital worker
As a follow-up to a case covered previously: A hospital worker who admitted to stealing about 20 patient records a week out of Saint Anthony Hospital to give them to a convicted counterfeiter was sentenced on Monday to four years in the Department of Corrections. Dawn Philbin, 51, reached a plea deal in Denver County…
Residents’ data lost in stolen council laptops
Residents’ personal data held by North Somerset Council has gone missing after laptops were stolen. It remains unknown whether or not the device on which the confidential details were held was protected. The local authority is yet to encrypt all of its mobile electronic equipment. A total of thirteen council laptops have been stolen over…
Bits ‘n Pieces
In the justice system: Alexis Brooke Faison of Durham was charged with 10 counts of identity theft and using a computer to collect fraudulent information following a month-long investigation by Alamance County and Durham detectives. More. A Wendy’s worker, Demetrish McAllister, has been arrested and charged with keeping and using customers’ debit cards. More. In…