A federal grand jury in Montgomery, Ala., returned an indictment charging Lea’Tice Phillips for conspiring to file false tax returns using stolen identities, the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced today. The 37 count indictment charges Phillips with conspiracy to file false claims, wire fraud, computer fraud and aggravated identity theft. According to…
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LA DPPS employee pleads guilty to stealing clients’ info for tax refund fraud scheme
“It’s déjà vu all over again” — noted infosecurity expert Yogi Berra. Veronico Niko, a former Los Angeles County Department of Public Social Services employee, has pleaded guilty to stealing names and Social Security numbers for use in a tax refund fraud scheme. Niko, her husband Thomas Marshall, Michael Williams, Mao Niko, and Mike Niko…
Minnesota resident sues state agency and employee over breach involving driver’s license database
A Minnesota resident, Jeffrey Ness, has filed a potential class action lawsuit against the state’s Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and Department of Public Safety after a DNR employee exceeded authorized access and accessed about 5,000 residents’ driver’s license information. The employee was terminated but the motive for the improper access was not disclosed. In the lawsuit filed…
Cops Suspect Up to 300 Counts of Fraud In KTSU DJ Case
William Michael Smith and Steve Jansen report: A TSU DJ has been arrested in an alleged pledge-drive scam, a local TV watchdog reporter said late Wednesday. According to a tweet from Fox 26 reporter Isiah Carey late this afternoon, KTSU radio volunteer Michael Whitfield was arrested earlier in the day and could face up to 300…
Follow-up: Dun & Bradstreet Unit Fined, Former Employees Sentenced
The Shanghai Roadway Dun & Bradstreet Marketing Services Co. Ltd breach currently holds the unenviable distinction of being the largest recorded breach in DataLossDB’s database. In March 2012, we learned that law enforcement was investigating whether the company had illegally collected and sold 150,000,000 people’s information. Dun & Bradstreet responded by suspending its Chinese service…
The long arm of Connecticut law supports personal jurisdiction over Canadian employee accessing company’s U.S. server
Evan Brown provides a recap of the ruling in in MacDermid, Inc. v. Deiter. The relevant background of the case is that an employee of a U.S. firm who lived and worked in Canada allegedly accessed her firm’s server in Connecticut from her Canadian location and forwarded confidential corporate information from her work e-mail account to…