Michael Cohn reports: A former Internal Revenue Service employee has been sentenced to four years and nine months in prison in connection a tax fraud and identity theft scheme. Missy A. Sledge, 47, was employed for 12 years by the IRS. According to prosecutors, she worked with other criminals who would file fraudulent tax returns…
Category: ID Theft
Massive Data Breach Affects Hundreds of Miami-Dade County Employees
Dan Krauth reports: A massive data breach has affected hundreds of Miami-Dade County employees, according to two independent NBC 6 sources. NBC 6 has confirmed county employees’ personal information is being used to file fraudulent unemployment claims and commit credit card fraud. It is still unclear if the data breach, which could date back to…
Ex-ALDOC workers sentenced in identity theft
Scott Johnson reports: Two former Alabama Department of Corrections officers have been sentenced for their roles in a stolen identity tax refund scheme. Bryant Thompson was sentenced to 120 months in prison, and Quincy Walton was sentenced to 84 months. Thompson and Walton were convicted of conspiracy to defraud the United States in January 2014….
Update: All 62,000 workers at UPMC may now be victims of data breach
Robert Zullo reports: The scope of a data breach at UPMC that may have exposed Social Security numbers, addresses, salary and bank account information to identity thieves has now widened to potentially include all of its 62,000 workers, the health-care conglomerate informed employees in an e-mail today. “Outside of the 817 confirmed victims of tax…
Former Washington State Employee Used Confidential Database To Commit Identity Theft
Associated Press reports: The Washington attorney general’s office has filed charges against a former state employee accused of using confidential state databases to commit identity theft and steal unclaimed property. The state charged Timothy Darrell Fultz on Wednesday with multiple counts of theft, money laundering and computer trespass. He is accused of taking more than…
Home Depot reports another insider breach
Home Depot seems to be having a rough year with dishonest employees. In February, this site reported that some employees had been charged with stealing co-workers’ personal information. Over 1200 were notified in California. Now Home Depot has notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that between May 7 – May 21, an employee was…