Two New York high school students enrolled at Madrid-Waddington Central School are facing third degree felony charges of computer tampering for allegedly accessing school district computers and changing records. Fox10 reports that the two youth, who have been identified as Mathew Hayes and Nicholas Ladoceour, allegedly accessed attendance, disciplinary, and grade records via the school’s intranet. According to…
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Macedonian prosecutor indicts opposition leader in wiretap scandal
Kole Casule reports: The Macedonian state prosecutor formally indicted the country’s top opposition politician late on Thursday over his role in a surveillance scandal that challenged the nine-year rule of Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski. For months Zoran Zaev, the leader of the opposition Social Democrats has been publishing wire-taps he says he received from a…
Theft of private data on 900 L.A. County-USC patients investigated
Veronica Rocha reports: Officials are investigating a security and privacy breach affecting 900 patients who were treated at the Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center’s mental health facility. The breach was discovered April 3 during a search of the home of a nurse who was employed at the Augustus F. Hawkins Mental Health Center, said Michael…
Comcast Employee Busted As Part of Identity Theft Ring
Karl Bode reports: Police in Shreveport, Louisiana have arrested ten individuals with connections to an identity and cable theft ring in the area, fueled in part by a Comcast employee. According to local news outlets, two brothers working for a Comcast subcontractor paid a Comcast employee for access to personal subscriber information. They then used that…
California Ex-Con Pleads Guilty of $220,000 Income Tax ID Theft Fraud
Cathy Locke reports that Edwin Ludwig IV, 34, a former inmate of the California Correctional Center in Susanville, has pleaded guilty to obtaining the personal information of other inmates to enable others to obtain fraudulent tax refunds. Read more on CPA Practice Advisor. A press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office does not clearly indicate whether the…
IL: Former Miami-Dade prison guard sentenced to 3 years for stolen identity refund fraud using inmates’ information
A former Miami Dade County Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation prison guard was sentenced to 36 months in federal prison by U.S. District Court Judge Charles R. Norgle for his role in a scheme involving theft of prison inmates’ identities which were used to file false tax returns. Cornelius Crumity pleaded guilty in May, 2014 to one…