The University of North Florida has issued this statement on its website: Impacted individuals being notified Between September 24, 2010 and September 29, 2010, a UNF file containing the personal information of high school and college students (and others interested in UNF) may have been accessed by unauthorized persons outside the United States. While immediate steps…
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Credit Union employee who wanted to fund son’s death row appeal indicted for ID theft
What some mothers won’t do for their kids. A credit union employee and the mother of a death row inmate, was indicted Thursday tor stealing customer’s credit information to take out loans in their names. The Secret Service told WFTV Nazreen Mohammed was using the money to finance her son Dane Abdool’s defense. Mohammed is…
Former MedAssets employee sentenced to 15 years in University of Texas Medical Branch breach
This is a follow-up to the University of Texas Medical Branch breach previously reported here and here. United States Attorney John E. Murphy announced that in Waco, 34-year-old Katina Candrick of LaGrange, Texas, was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison and ordered to pay $163,185.19 restitution for unlawful possession of fraudulent identification documents and…
Citibank employee stole customers’ credit card numbers as part of 3-woman fraud ring
A New York woman was sentenced today to 30 months in prison for her role in a scheme that defrauded customers of a Florence, Kentucky bank out of over one million dollars. U.S. District Court Judge David L. Bunning sentenced 38-year-old Lisa Reid for one count of bank fraud and one count of aggravated identity…
IRS: “We’re outraged” someone stole IDs of dead babies
There needs to be a special place in hell for these criminals. Hagit Limor reports: The Internal Revenue Service is investigating a problem the I-Team brought to light after the agency rejected the tax returns of a Cincinnati couple, saying someone else already had claimed as a dependent the daughter they had just lost to…
VA: 35,000 residents’ SSNs compromised when Accomack County laptop stolen on employee’s vacation to Vegas
We all know how I love reporting on laptops stolen from cars because it’s just such an unusual thing and no one could have possibly foreseen it, right? Ted Shockley reports: An Accomack employee had a county-owned laptop computer stolen while on a personal vacation to Las Vegas, and with it the names and Social…