Tonya Sams reports: A 46-year-old Akron man faces a maximum of 40 years in prison after pleading guilty Friday in Summit County Common Pleas Court for stealing credit card information from customers at his mother’s dry cleaning business and writing bad checks to the state. Michael Bukuts was guilty of engaging in a pattern of…
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(follow-up) Former FDIC Employee Fined for Leaking Financial Data
Merikay Wootton, 63, Lenexa, Kan., has been sentenced to 24 months probation and fined $3,600 for disclosing confidential information while she was an employee of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Wootton pleaded guilty to unlawfully disclosing confidential information from a government agency. In her plea, she admitted she was working as a loan officer for…
Houston Computer Administrator Sentenced to 12 Months in Prison for Hacking Former Employer’s Computer Network
A former senior database administrator for GEXA Energy in Houston was sentenced today to 12 months in prison for hacking into his former employer’s computer network. Steven Jinwoo Kim, 40, of Houston pleaded guilty on Nov. 16, 2009, to one count of intentionally accessing a protected computer without authorization and recklessly causing damage. Kim was…
Former Bank of New York Mellon computer tech pleads guilty
The Associated Press reports that Adeniyi Adeyemi, a former computer technician at Bank of New York Mellon, pleaded guilty to computer tampering and other charges. Adeyemi reportedly admitted to stealing 2,000 other employees’ identities and then using their ID’s for years to loot about $1 million from charities. Adeyemi had been indicted in October…
Former Bank of America teller sentenced for fraud
A former Bank of America teller was sentenced this week in federal court for bank fraud and identity fraud. Jeffrey C. Gautreaux, 26, of Peabody, Massachusetts was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Nathaniel M. Gorton to 41 months in prison, to be followed by 3 years of supervised release, with an order to pay $…
Spain uses stolen HSBC data for tax probe
Spain has become the latest country to tap data stolen from HSBC’s Swiss private banking arm by an IT employee to hunt down tax evaders…. according to local media reports, details on around 3000 accounts, which could hold around EUR6 billion, have been given to Spanish authorities. More on Finextra.