Michael Rey reports: In just one day the CBS affiliate station KPHO in Phoenix was able to replicate the type of results of our investigation into the documents saved on the hard drives of digital copiers. […] No surprise that they found something. A lot of somethings. This time the sensitive documents were from a…
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Two Romanian nationals charged with stealing bank acount numbers
Paula Reed Ward reports: Two Romanian nationals are in federal custody for allegedly using card skimmers to steal the account numbers from PNC Bank card users and then using those accounts to spend some $200,000. Alexandra Razvan Serb and Mihai Popa are charged with bank fraud, access device fraud and aggravated identity theft. The Western…
Police data on copiers causes city to scramble
Brian Meyer and Jay Rey report that the city of Buffalo is scrambling in the aftermath of a CBS report that confidential data was found on copier hard drives that were up for sale at a warehouse: Stored on one of the hard drives were details involving domestic-violence complaints along with a list of wanted…
(follow-up) Ex-university police officer gets probation in UCM identity theft case
As a follow-up to a case previously reported here, James B. Drake, the former University of Central Missouri police officer who pleaded guilty in January to stealing student identification information and conspiracy to commit identity theft, was sentenced by a federal judge in Kansas City to five years of probation. His wife is scheduled to…
Woman pleads no contest to charges of identity theft
A confessed professional identity thief pleaded no contest in state court yesterday to charges that could put her behind bars for the rest of her life. […] Audrey L. Collins, 44, pleaded no contest to racketeering, first-degree identity theft, first-degree theft and unauthorized possession of confidential personal information. […] When police arrested Collins and co-defendant…
Dallas woman gets statutory maximum sentence in mail theft and aggravated ID theft case
Shannon Palmer, 42, of Dallas, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Reed C. O’Connor to the statutory maximum sentence of seven years in federal prison, without parole, for mail theft and aggravated identity theft, announced U.S. Attorney James T. Jacks of the Northern District of Texas. Palmer, who has been in custody since her arrest…