Ellen Yan provides an update on the owner of 5 Star Kickboxing (formerly known as KOXO Kickboxing) who was arraigned in January for misusing customer credit card information. Thomas Donovan has been sentenced to 3 years in prison, 3 years’ post-release supervision, and restitution of $17,719.27 to Home Depot and $690.50 to an Oceanside scrap metal recycler. Read more on Newsday (subscription…
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TN: Former Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital employee indicted for identity theft and fraud
George Brown reports on a breach that’s news to me: A former Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital employee has been indicted for identity theft and fraud. Investigators started looking at Fannie Randolph, 52, in late 2013 and was fired a short time later. Randolph worked in the emergency room where she reportedly used patient information to,…
FL: Was Pasco County School District negligent in securing their network from students?
WTSP has provided a follow-up to a report noted earlier involving a 14-year old student at Paul R. Smith Middle School who is facing two felony charges for allegedly hacking into the Pasco County School District‘s network. Their new report addresses some of the questions I raised in my previous post about the incident. In their update, the student, who is now…
FL: 14-year-old arrested after hacking into FCAT
For those not familiar with it, FCAT is the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test, a standardized test for assessing student performance. WTSP reports: A 14-year-old student at Paul R. Smith Middle School was arrested Wednesday after investigators say he hacked into the school’s computer system and accessed the server containing 2014 FCAT information. In addition, the student…
Mississippi woman sentenced to prison for 10 years for stolen identity tax refund fraud scheme
Well, she was originally scheduled to be sentenced almost one year ago, but now Marietta Harris has been sentenced, it seems, and sentenced to the maximum prison term available under the guidelines. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Mississippi issued a press release today: Marietta Harris, 39, of Jackson, was sentenced on…
FL: Former Miami Dade College employee indicted in tax refund fraud scheme
From today’s press release from the USAO for the Southern District of Florida: United States v. Michelson Jeancy, Case No. 15-20230-CR-Huck On April 3, 2015, defendant Michelson Jeancy, 35, of Miami, was charged by indictment for his participation in an identity theft tax fraud scheme. According to the indictment, Jeancy was an employee of a Miami-Dade…