A follow-up to an insider ID theft case mentioned last month: Christopher Polley changed his plea to guilty and faces between 180 days and a year in jail when he is sentenced Sept. 6, according to News10.com While working at the Wave House Athletic Club from May 2010 through January of this year, the defendant…
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Willingboro woman sold IDs of TD Bank customers, used them to take money from accounts: police
Jessica Beym reports: A Burlington County woman and a New York man were each charged Thursday with one count of bank fraud and two counts of aggravated identity theft in a scheme that netted them more than $170,000, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. Authorities said Patricia Lightsey, 27, of Willingboro, worked as a…
GM notifying more than 800 workers of personal information breach
Melissa Burden reports: General Motors Co. said Friday that 883 active and retired GM workers may have had their personal information exposed — including Social Security numbers — after a GM employee copied personal information just before retiring in May. “GM has completed an investigation of this incident and is contacting the affected individuals to…
Winn-Dixie sued by former employee following third-party data breach
A potential class action lawsuit filed in federal court in Florida made me aware of a data breach that I don’t recall seeing in the media. Patrick A. Burrows has filed the lawsuit against Purchasing Power, LLC and Winn-Dixie. According to the complaint, Winn-Dixie shares employee data with Purchasing Power, LLC to administer an employee…
Michele Bachmann sued by former aide who says campaign staff were ‘thieves who stole contact list’ (update1)
A campaign aide for former Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann sued the Minnesota congresswoman and her senior campaign aides on Monday, alleging an official stole a private email list and that she was blamed for its use. The lawsuit filed by Barb Heki claimed that Bachmann’s Iowa campaign chairman, state Senator Kent Sorenson, took the…
Swiss Confirm Falciani Arrest in Spain Over HSBC Data Theft
Neil MacLucas of Dow Jones Newswires reports: Switzerland has confirmed the arrest in Spain of Herve Falciani and are now seeking extradition of the Italian-French citizen being sought by police in connection with the theft of customer data from the Geneva branch of HSBC Private Bank. […] Copies of the HSBC data, which lists the…