Levi Pulkkinen reports: A 37-year-old Renton man accused of stealing hundreds of identities and credit cards was sentenced to a five-year prison term Friday in U.S. District Court. According to a statement issued by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Seattle, Billy Morris Britt took part in an ID theft ring that targeted 23 different financial…
Category: Theft
UK: Primary Care Trusts breach the Data Protection Act
Great Yarmouth and Waveney Primary Care Trust and Gloucestershire Primary Care Trust have taken remedial action after the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) found them in breach of the Data Protection Act. Great Yarmouth and Waveney Primary Care Trust (PCT) informed the ICO of the theft of two desktop computers containing sensitive personal data relating to…
639-count indictment of 15 allegedly involved in NYC ID theft ring
Manhattan District Attorney Robert M. Morgenthau announced a 639-count indictment of 15 individuals in connection with a $600,000 pickpocketing and identity theft ring which compromised at least 60 accounts at various bank branches in New York City. The defendants are Arthur Franklin, Joseph Simms, Vincent Franklin, James Mannix, Kathleen Miller, Carol Dibitetto, Larry Ford, Kandra…
Bits ‘n Pieces
In the justice system: As an update to a story previously reported, John B. Spencer III, and Donald E. Stoner, both of Lancaster have pleaded guilty to an ID theft scheme that targeted DUI offenders in Pennsylvania by using information provided in their publicly available court records. A grand jury has indicted five men and…
Stolen Laptop Contained Social Security Numbers of Students & Alumni
Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania is notifying current and former students who were enrolled in psychology professor Julie Kontos’ classes from spring 2004 through the summer of 2006 about the possible loss of their social security numbers when a laptop was stolen from a campus office. […] “We have identified and are in the process of…
Cops: Social Security numbers stolen from Woodbury company
Joseph Mallia reports: A former employee broke into a Woodbury financial services company, photocopied customers’ Social Security numbers and bank reference numbers and took the photocopied data with him when he left, Nassau police said Tuesday. Christopher Pemberton, 31, was arrested Monday and charged with burglary. He had worked at Obsidian for six days in…