Paige McAtee reports: A Stoneham bank supervisor was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison on Monday for his involvement in a stolen identity refund fraud scheme in which he opened bank accounts to receive fraudulent proceeds. Carlos Mauricio Gonzalez, 30, of Revere, opened business and personal bank accounts that were to receive proceeds from…
Category: Financial Sector
FL: Former Regions banker gets prison time, $1M+ judgment in ID theft
Margie Manning has an update to an insider breach first noted on this blog in May 2011: A federal judge in Tampa sentenced a former personal banker for Regions Bank to seven-and-a-half years in prison for her role in an identity theft scheme. The court also entered a money judgment of $1.17 million against the former banker, Howayda Hamdan….
HSBC Turkey says credit card information of 2.7 mln customers stolen
Let’s treating this as breaking news, because I expect Reuters will add details to this report later: HSBC Turkey said on Wednesday cyber criminals had stolen credit card information of 2.7 million of its customers in Turkey and that additional security measures to monitor transactions had been put in place. HSBC Turkey said in a statement…
KS: Former G.E. Consumer Finance Employee Sentenced On Federal Computer Fraud Charge
KANSAS CITY, KAN. – An Olathe man was sentenced Tuesday to three years in federal prison for computer fraud, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said. Ryan Cauble, 41, Olathe, Kan., pleaded guilty to one count of computer fraud. In his plea, he admitted he committed the crime while he worked for G.E. Consumer Finance, a saving…
Former Fifth Third Bank employee to plead guilty to identity theft scheme
NWI Times reports: A woman Monday entered into a plea agreement in connection with an alleged identity theft scam that impacted various retailers in Northwest Indiana and elsewhere. Under the plea agreement with the U.S. attorney’s office, Kathryn Jackson said she will plead guilty to three counts of identity theft. From October 2010 through Jan….
Broward Resident Sentenced For Role In Bank Fraud Involving Stolen Identity Tax Refunds
Willy Toussaint, 43, of Lauderhill, Florida, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Beth Bloom to 46 months in prison, to be followed by five years of supervised release stemming from his convictions to one count of Conspiracy to Commit Bank Fraud, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1349, and two counts of…