Lucas W. Hixon reports: Charles Harvey Eccleston, a 62-year-old former employee of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and Department of Energy (DOE) currently living in the Philippines, was the subject of an undercover investigation by agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) after a cyber attack was used to attempt to steal files from…
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For years, a Passport Agency contractor copied passport applicants’ data to create fake identities
Colby Itkowitz reports: A woman employed as a State Department contractor was indicted in Houston on Wednesday for an alleged identity theft scheme using personal information she stole while working at a passport office. The contractor, Chloe McClendon, and two other women were charged “with multiple counts of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud and…
WA: Mercer Island Police investigating case of high school hacking
David Ham reports: Detectives are investigating allegations that a 17-year-old student at Mercer Island High School hacked into the school’s online record-keeping system to change his own grades. According to court documents, a teacher reported to the school administration that she’d noticed odd activity on her school teacher account and then noticed one particular student’s…
Yahoo sues ex-employee over book on Marissa Mayer
Matt O’Brien reports: Yahoo has sued a former employee for allegedly feeding confidential information to a journalist who wrote a book about CEO Marissa Mayer published earlier this year. “Marissa Mayer and the Fight to Save Yahoo!” by Business Insider journalist Nicholas Carlson relied heavily on anonymous sources to recount Mayer’s first two years running…
Former assistant band director indicted for filing fraudulent tax returns using Broward students’ personal information
A Florida man who was a former assistant band director at a high school in Plantation, Florida was charged for his participation in an identity theft tax fraud scheme involving former Broward County students and other individuals’ personal identifying information (PII). Delvis Demaine Rogers, 27, was charged by indictment with one count of using one or more unauthorized…
KS: Army private accused of stealing fellow soldiers’ identities while at Fort Riley
The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that Todd M. Newbrough, a former Army private stationed at Fort Riley, has been charged in federal court in Topeka with with four counts of wire fraud, four counts of bank fraud, four counts of aggravated identity theft and one count of computer fraud. The indictment alleges that Newbrough used personal identity information of…