Stephanie Russo reports: Mesa police arrested a former bank employee who they said used a stolen identity and her own address to apply for credit cards, court records state. An investigation into a reported credit card theft led officers to Esther J. Hulse, a former Arizona Federal Credit Union employee from Phoenix, Wednesday morning, court…
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New CD on German tax dodgers surfaces
Another CD packed with evidence of German tax evasion on money totalling €500 million has been spirited out of a bank in Liechtenstein and is being offered to investigators, media reported Thursday. The data was offered to tax authorities in the northern state of Schleswig-Holstein months ago. The CD contains details of hundreds of Germans…
Coffee shop’s employee arrested over credit card fraud in Jakarta
The National police’s special crimes unit has arrested a credit card fraud suspect, identified as DDB, 26, an employee with the US-based Starbucks coffee shop in Jakarta. The unit chief Sr. Comr. Winston Tommy Watuliu said the suspect, a university graduate, collected data of the credit cards from the coffee shop customers’ receipts, as quoted…
HM Courts Service staff breached government database of personal information
Mark Ballard reports: Staff working for Her Majesty’s Courts Service have breached security on the government database that stores personal data about everyone in the UK. Also, local authorities sacked 26 employees last year for snooping on personal data stored on the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) Customer Information System (CIS), which, with 90…
CA: Tax Preparer Accused of Ripping Off Identities of Customers
A tax preparer accused of using the names and Social Security numbers of current and former clients to file false tax returns to obtain refunds was arraigned Thursday on multiple federal charges. A 34-count indictment alleges Neil A. Thomsen, 62, used his Internal Revenue Service electronic filing number to set up accounts with two banks…
(update 4) Utah concludes state resources were used in immigrant list
MSNBC and NBC report: Utah officials said Thursday they had uncovered evidence that someone used a state employment database to help anti-immigration activists compile a list purporting to identify 1,300 illegal immigrants. Angie Welling, a spokeswoman for Gov. Gary R. Herbert, said the information in the list was “contained entirely in the Department of Workforce…