Jeff Deal reports: Investigators learned a worker at the Swan and Dolphin Resort on Walt Disney World property was snooping through personal information of others. Investigators said 26-year-old Bryant Plosch, a security officer at the resort, was supposed to use the database to protect guests. Instead, officials said they caught him logging in from his…
Category: Insider
Update to AT&T insider breach
Mainstream media has now caught up with the AT&T insider breach I reported on October 3. Reuters reports that 1,600 customers have been notified of the potential compromise of their information.
Five indicted in Saks Fifth Avenue customer info theft scheme
Following up on a previously noted breach, five people have been indicted in the acquisition and misuse of nearly two dozen Saks Fifth Avenue customers’ information.
AT&T notifying customers of insider breach
AT&T is notifying customers after discovering that a rogue employee was accessing customer information improperly. The employee, who has since had their employment terminated, would have been able to access customers’ name, account information, including SSN and driver’s license number, and CPNI (Customer Proprietary Network Information). From the wording of the notification letter, it sounds as…
Former State of Alabama Employee Pleads Guilty to Stealing Identities from State Databases
WTVY reports: 30-year-old Tamika Floyd a resident of Salem, Ala., pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States and one count of aggravated identity theft for her involvement in a Stolen Identity Tax Refund Scheme (SIRF), announced Deputy Assistant Attorney General Ronald A. Cimino of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and…
FL: Former corrections officer sent to prison for stealing inmate identities
Tampa Bay Times reports an update to a previously noted case: A former state correctional officer from Tampa has been sentenced to federal prison for more than four years for stealing the identity of inmates to file fraudulent tax returns. Jerry St. Fleur, 26, was given four years and three months in prison for wire…