Tarrish Tellis, 38, owned the Club Iconz Bar and Grill in Montgomery, Alabama. He was also the mastermind behind a stolen identity tax refund fraud scheme that stole over $700,000. Yesterday, Tellis was sentenced to 223 months in federal prison, three years of supervised release and ordered to pay $694,366 in restitution. On Jan. 14, a federal jury convicted Tellis of…
Category: Government Sector
Randall Charles Tucker accused of hacking Arizona Department of Child Safety
Deborah Stocks reports: A 20-year-old man from Apache Junction is jailed without bond, accused of computer tampering after he allegedly hacked into Arizona government agencies. A search warrant was served at the home of Randall Charles Tucker on Thursday after a six-month investigation, according to court documents. According to authorities, Tucker had used the name…
Former member of SwaggSec sentenced to 3 years in prison for attacks on DirecTV, Farmers Insurance, and L.A. Dept. of Public Works
Nancy Dillon reports that a 32-year old hacker who used the online names of “fame” and “infam0us” and was part of SwaggSec has been sentenced to three years in federal prison for his role in attacking DirecTV, Farmers Insurance and the Los Angeles Department of Public Works: Mario Patrick Chuisano was sentenced in U.S. District Court in…
IRS employee accused of stealing credit card info while at work
From the well-this-inspires-confidence-doesn’t-it dept.: KCTV in Missouri reports: An IRS employees is accused of booking a vacation and a shopping spree while on the clock with stolen credit card information. Weisha Jackson is charged with stealing credit card information from another employee while working at the Kansas City Internal Revenue Service campus. Read more on…
Vermont Dept. of Labor employee improperly possessed information from state unemployment insurance database
On March 27, the Vermont Department of Labor began notifying individuals that a now-former employee improperly accessed and acquired their information from an unemployment insurance database. The personal information, which included names and Social Security numbers, was found in the former employee’s possession, but investigators have found no evidence to date that the information was transferred…
Right-wing group blamed for posting top law officials’ info
CBS News is reporting: Federal law enforcement officials are investigating the online publication of home addresses of senior officials and former officials of the Department of Homeland Security, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and other agencies, CBS News has learned. Investigators became aware of the incident Tuesday, reports CBS News correspondent Jeff Pegues. Read more…