Susan Palmer reports an update to a previously noted breach: Eugene police have arrested a teenage suspect on suspicion of hacking into the Eugene School District’s computer system in a June incident that potentially compromised thousands of student records and sent parents on a scramble to make sure their children did not become victims of…
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MN: Roseville police probe suspected ID theft at Rosedale restaurant
Emily Gumon reports: Roseville police are investigating what they believe to be an identity theft and credit-card skimming operation at the Chinese Gourmet Express restaurant in the Rosedale Center mall. Several customers of the mall and employees at other stores there reported their personal credit or debit card numbers had been stolen and used fraudulently…
CA: Ex-Gym Employee Accused Of Stealing Clients’ Identities (updated)
A former employee at Wave House, a Mission Beach fitness center, has pleaded not guilty to 20 criminal charges, including identity theft and grand theft. Christopher Polley was arrested after police searched his home. Polley allegedly stole hundreds of applications and contracts. Read more on 10News and their follow-up. Update of Sept. 7: He was…
OK: Ex-worker at Tulsa McDonald’s pleads guilty in identity-theft ring
David Harper reports: A former McDonald’s employee pleaded guilty Friday to taking part in a conspiracy in which account numbers were stolen from diners’ credit and debit cards, telling the court that the crimes started when a drive-through customer asked if he wanted to make some extra money. Herbert Orin Johns Jr., 22, also pleaded…
MN: State worker stole IDs for fraud
David Chanen and Dan Browning report: Applications that psychologists made to the Minnesota Board of Psychology to get or renew their licenses delivered a gold mine of information to a receptionist working with a crime ring to defraud banks and retailers in 14 states. Robin Finger, 44, is the latest of several people in a…
ID theft sting nabs state employee
EmpireStateNews reports: An employee of the New York State Office of Children and Family Services is accused of selling personal information to an outside person. Gary Oxendine, 55, of Albany, was arraigned on one count of receiving a reward for official misconduct in the second degree, a felony, on Wednesday evening in Bethlehem Town Court….