Patty Ryan reports: The internal theft of five laptop computers from U.S. Central Command at MacDill Air Force Base went undetected until a supplier noticed four of them advertised on eBay, according to federal court records. A CentCom official ordered an inventory, putting it in the hands of a Riverview man who now admits to…
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MS: Former consultant arrested for copying and selling data
In today’s installment of The Threat Among Us, a consultant copies his employer’s data and then allegedly sells it to another business, despite having a confidentiality agreement in place. The FBI reports that on April 8, 2015, members of the Jackson FBI’s Cyber Task Force arrested Thomas A. Wotring, age 28. The arrest was made…
More details emerge on insider breach at FL Department of Economic Opportunity
More details have emerged on a case reported on this site last week in which a state employee accessed a state database and acquired identity information that she allegedly then sold to others. News4Jax reports: According to the Department of Economic Opportunity, one of their employees managed to access the Florida Department of Children and Families‘…
Update: Air Force senior master sergeant sentenced for ID theft involving fellow soldiers
Christopher Dwan Underwood, who pled guilty in January to stealing government-issued credit cards and dozens of his fellow soldier’s identity information, has been sentenced to two years.
Indictment charges Flordia eye doc with misdiagnosing and operating on patients needlessly to support Medicare fraud
Here’s yet another case where patients’ records were allegedly purposefully corrupted to support a fraud scheme – resulting in patients allegedly getting serious surgeries and injections they didn’t need, and putting them at risk for future improper treatment should those records be used by others. Salomon E. Melgen, 60, is an ophthalmologist and retina specialist licensed to…
Former Montgomery Nightclub Owner Sentenced to Prison for Role as Ringleader of Stolen Identity Tax Refund Fraud Scheme
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…