A young computer engineer was nabbed by the company authorities for data theft from the company computer and uploading it on another data sharing site for future use. He was nabbed by city cyber cell officials on Saturday. According to cyber cell officials, they had received a complaint from Satellite police station officials where Anand…
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UK: Drug dealer who copied police files jailed and fined £1,250
Angus Howarth reports: A drug-dealing police worker caught with secret work documents at her home was jailed for over two years yesterday. Laura Young copied crime files and police reports while working at Grampian Police headquarters in Aberdeen. The 22-year-old even showed a confidential file to the person concerned in the report. She also obtained…
Flight school employee sentenced for debit card fraud
Troy Caleb Wood, 37, of Oregon City, Oregon, and formerly of Idaho Falls, Idaho, was sentenced Tuesday to 18 months in federal prison for access device fraud, the U. S. Attorney’s Office announced. U.S. District Judge Edward Lodge also ordered Wood to serve three years of supervised release following his prison term, and to pay…
Edmonton travel agency owner charged in scam
Cigdem Iltan reports: The owner of a southeast Edmonton travel agency has been charged with allegedly using stored credit card data to fraudulently take $50,000 from his customers. Gurmeet Singh Mankoo, Payless Travel’s owner, has been charged with a series of alleged frauds that took place at the business between late 2009 and early 2010….
Tulsa woman pleads guilty in identity theft case
David Harper reports the follow-up to a case previously covered here last month: A Tulsa woman pleaded guilty Wednesday to participating in a conspiracy in which personal identifying information was taken from St. Francis Hospital’s computer system and used as part of a scheme involving fraudulent credit cards and stolen mail. Teresa R. Browning, 36,…
Ca: Shockingly easy to obtain confidential information
It seems you don’t need “friends in high places” to open doors for you in Saskatchewan. How about a humble data entry clerk? That’s apparently all it took for the Teamsters Union to obtain confidential personal information from the SGI [Saskatchewan Government Insurance] database which it then used to write to the home addresses of…