Denicia Aragon reports: Over 1,000 former students and employees of UNM recently had their identity stolen from a University database, and after a month of silence, UNM has established a call center to assist victims of the incident. According to a University release, a decades-old UNM database containing names, birth dates, social security numbers, address,…
Category: ID Theft
Watchdog: IRS failed to notify over 1M people of identity theft
Naomi Jagoda reports: The Internal Revenue Service identified close to 1.1 million taxpayers who were victims of employment-related identity theft from 2011 through 2015, but almost none of the victims were informed, a Treasury Department watchdog found in a report made public this week. “Employment-related identity theft can cause significant burden to taxpayers, including the…
AL: Lawsuit against Flowers Hospital could widen to include other alleged ID theft victims
Ken Curtis reports the latest developments in a lawsuit stemming from an insider breach for tax refund fraud. The former Flowers Hospital employee is currently serving a prison sentence, but now others want to join the potential class action lawsuit against the hospital. Curtis reports, in part: Legal documents show that Millender was in possession…
AZ Computer Expert Sentenced to Prison After $571,000 Theft
PHOENIX – Attorney General Mark Brnovich announced a judge sentenced Steve Nolte to 9 years in prison for stealing more than $571,000 from his former employer. The sentence imposed by the Court was ordered to run consecutive to Nolte’s three-year federal prison sentence for passport fraud, aggravated identity theft, and use of a falsely-obtained Social Security Number. On…
Former Car Dealership Employee Sentenced for her Participation in a Stolen Identity Tax Fraud Scheme
A Jensen Beach resident was sentenced to 30 months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release for her participation in a stolen identity tax fraud scheme. Micheline Eppolito, 29, of Jensen Beach, was previously convicted at trial of one count of possessing fifteen or more unauthorized access devices, affecting interstate commerce, in violation…
ID: Accounting firm Presnell Gage reports data security breach
The Lewiston Tribune reports: The personal information of Presnell Gage Accounting and Consulting clients may have been accessed without authorization during a recent data security breach, according to a company news release. A small percentage of clients had fraudulent tax returns filed without their authorization, according to a news release from the Lewiston-based company. Presnell…