A federal indictment unsealed yesterday in St. Paul charges 12 people who reside in Minnesota, California, and New York with orchestrating a $10 million bank fraud conspiracy that featured a network of bank employees and others, operating locally and nationally. What’s notable about this case is that it appeared to be a coordinated ring relying…
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Bank employee accused of selling account numbers
Brad Leibowitz reports: A bank employee is under arrest after police charged her with selling account numbers of customers. On Feb. 28, police department officers arrested TD Bank of Elmwood Park employee Davasia Williamson, 22, of Bogota, in connection with the selling of private bank account numbers. According to police reports, Williamson was selling personal…
Students’ info lifted, provided to third party
Katrease Stafford reports: Eastern Michigan University is investigating two former student employees who are believed to have taken personal identifiable information of approximately 45 students and improperly provided it to a third party. The data was taken from student records the former student employees had access to during the course of their employment. The University…
Rogue Penn Mutual employee may have accessed and disclosed customer personal and financial information
Penn Mutual Life Insurance reports that a former employee may have accessed and disclosed customer information. Through their lawyers, Penn Mutual informed the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office on February 1 that despite their forensic efforts, they were not able to determine definitively which customer accounts were improperly accessed, but they believe that the employee…
Alabama police officer indicted for ID theft
Bradley Howard Pemberton, 41, a sergeant with the Montgomery Police Department (“MPD”), was indicted recently on federal wire fraud and identity theft charges, according to an announcement by Leura G. Canary, United States Attorney. The indictment alleges that through his position with MPD, Pemberton was authorized to access the Law Enforcement Tactical System (“LETS”), which…
Swiss Prosecutor Releases Person In Credit Suisse Data Theft Case
Switzerland’s prosecutor said Thursday an undisclosed person arrested last month as part of an investigation into data allegedly stolen from Swiss bank Credit Suisse Group (CS) was released from custody. “Our investigation has advanced so well that we released the accused person from custody last Friday,” spokesman Jeannette Balmer said in an emailed statement. She…