More on that investigation in Hawaii after an audit revealed some unspecified shenanigans involving employee access to Tax Department databases going back to 2008. Keoki Kerr reports: KITV4 News has learned 14 employees of the State Tax Department are under investigation by the State Attorney General’s office for possible criminal wrongdoing. Sources said so far,…
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Ex-Credit Suisse worker guilty of data theft
And so a long-running data theft case ends. The Local (Switzerland) reports: The Swiss Federal Criminal Court sentenced on Thursday a former employee of Credit Suisse to a two-year suspended sentence for breaching bank secrecy laws and money laundering. The former bank worker was also fined 3,500 francs ($3,727) after he confessed to having stolen…
CA: Help-desk employee who helped himself to co-worker’s information, sentenced to prison
United States Attorney Laura E. Duffy announced that Khris St. Ives Dulay Lu was sentenced in federal court in San Diego by United States District Court Judge Roger T. Benitez to serve 48 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, based upon his conviction for credit card fraud, in violation of…
NY: Ex-Federation Worker Charged in ID Theft Scam
A worker at UJA-Federation in New York allegedly led a $2 million identity theft ring that targeted top donors to the charitable organization, prosecutors announced Friday. Tracy Nelson, of Brooklyn, worked at UJA-Federation for more than two years processing donations until she was fired last summer as the thefts came to light, the Daily News…
HI: Tax data infiltrated by state workers (updated)
Rob Shikina reports: The state Department of Taxation placed several employees on administrative leave without pay this week following the discovery of an internal security breach of the department’s tax database. The breach was found during an audit of the department’s security systems and internal controls this year, the department said Thursday. The incidents occurred…
Former RadioShack worker pleads guilty to using customer’s info for identity theft
Dianna Hunt reports: A former RadioShack customer service representative pleaded guilty in federal court Wednesday to stealing customers’ personal information while trying to resolve their problems. Youlanda Rochelle Wright used the information to file a false income tax return in a client’s name to get a refund of $3,654, according to court records. Wright entered…