Scott Johnson reports: Two former Alabama Department of Corrections officers have been sentenced for their roles in a stolen identity tax refund scheme. Bryant Thompson was sentenced to 120 months in prison, and Quincy Walton was sentenced to 84 months. Thompson and Walton were convicted of conspiracy to defraud the United States in January 2014….
Category: ID Theft
Update: All 62,000 workers at UPMC may now be victims of data breach
Robert Zullo reports: The scope of a data breach at UPMC that may have exposed Social Security numbers, addresses, salary and bank account information to identity thieves has now widened to potentially include all of its 62,000 workers, the health-care conglomerate informed employees in an e-mail today. “Outside of the 817 confirmed victims of tax…
Former Washington State Employee Used Confidential Database To Commit Identity Theft
Associated Press reports: The Washington attorney general’s office has filed charges against a former state employee accused of using confidential state databases to commit identity theft and steal unclaimed property. The state charged Timothy Darrell Fultz on Wednesday with multiple counts of theft, money laundering and computer trespass. He is accused of taking more than…
Home Depot reports another insider breach
Home Depot seems to be having a rough year with dishonest employees. In February, this site reported that some employees had been charged with stealing co-workers’ personal information. Over 1200 were notified in California. Now Home Depot has notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that between May 7 – May 21, an employee was…
Vermont architects report identity theft
Eric Blaisdell reports: The head of the state’s chapter of the American Institute of Architects says around 40 Vermont architects just discovered they were all the victims of identity theft. Read more on Times Argus. Keep in mind that the AIA is a professional association, not the state licensing board, and the national AIA application…
Court Ventures/U.S. Info Search/Experian breach tied to more cases of ID theft
Trot on over to KrebsOnSecurity.com, where Brian’s connecting the dots between a number of criminal prosecutions and Ngo, the Vietnamese national who posed as a Singapore investigator to get a Court Ventures account that gave him access to reports in U.S. Info Search’s database. Experian subsequently acquired Court Ventures, and Ngo’s account was allowed to continue…