Deepa Bharath reports: A 28-year-old Garden Grove man has been sentenced to 11 years in federal prison for orchestrating two identity theft schemes in which he got personal information from hundreds of consumers and used it to fraudulently obtain about $1.5 million from home equity lines of credit and credit card accounts, federal officials said…
Category: ID Theft
Palmetto General Hospital employee and accomplice sentenced for stealing patient records
Jacquettia L. Brown, 29, and Tear Renee Barbary, 25, both residents of Miami-Dade County, were both sentenced this week following their conviction on offenses relating to the theft of patient records from Palmetto General Hospital to further a fraud scheme. U.S. District Court Judge K. Michael Moore sentenced Brown to two years and five days…
DA: Nigeria scammer stole 150 IDs
Laura Italiano reports: As temps from hell go, officials say this one takes the cake — and whatever mother’s maiden names he can get his hands on. Manhattan prosecutors say a 19-year-old Nigerian computer whiz stole the personal financial information of 150 fellow employees during a brief but busy three-month temping stint at Bank of…
(Follow-up) Credit cards re-issued in Finland after data breach in Spain
A credit card security breach has been uncovered in Spain that may involve up to tens of thousands of Finnish bank and credit cards. So far it is not known exactly how many Visa or Master Card accounts have been compromised because of the information breach. Where in Spain the hacking took place is also…
Former Wachovia employee convicted of bank fraud and aggravated identity theft
Juan Rombado, a former Wachovia Bank employee, has been convicted of bank fraud and aggravated identity theft arising from several schemes aimed at defrauding his employer through the theft of customer identities, United States Attorney Tim Johnson announced. Indicted and arrested in August 2009, Rombado pleaded guilty to both counts before United States District Judge…
Former state tax department employee arrested
The Associated Press reports: Louisiana State Police say a former employee of the state Department of Revenue faces nine felony charges, including theft and unauthorized use of credit card information. Detectives say 39-year-old Joy Lynn Aikens, of Prairieville, was arrested Tuesday on one count of malfeasance in office, two counts of identity theft and six…