Boyd Huppert reports: In the end it was just too big a coincidence to ignore. Several people with fraudulent charges on their credit cards had all eaten at the T.G.I. Friday’s in Coon Rapids and had all been waited on by the same server. That server was arrested Thursday at his home in Coon Rapids,…
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IN: 9 claim tax return ID theft
WBBM reports: The IRS and police in northwest Indiana are looking into allegations of identity theft of people who claimed someone had filed tax returns for them before they filed their own returns. There are nine people who have filed identity theft complaints with the East Chicago, Ind. police department. The Northwest Indiana Times reports…
Shell staff details leaked to campaign groups
Ed Crooks provides more background on a breach involving Shell employee contact information: The database, from Shell’s internal directory, gives names and telephone numbers for its workforce worldwide, including some home numbers used for business. The e-mail was ostensibly sent by disaffected staff calling for a “peaceful corporate revolution” at the company. The database was…
CO: Woman pleads not guilty to charges of stealing customers’ credit card information
A woman accused of stealing customers’ credit card information to purchase $200,000 worth of Wal-Mart shopping cards pleaded not guilty. Investigators say Jerryca Chavez obtained customers’ credit card information while working at the Sandwich Board cafe in Greenwood Village. Read more on KDVR.
Former New York Federal Reserve Bank employee and his brother sentenced to prison for fraudulent loan schemes
Curtis L. Wiltshire, a former employee of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (“FRBNY”) and his brother, Kenneth Wiltshire, were sentenced today to 40 months and 57 months in prison, respectively, for their roles in schemes to obtain hundreds of thousands of dollars in fraudulent loans. The sentences were imposed today by United States…
TX: Info on UTMB patients may have been compromised
Cindy George reports: Confidential information about 1,200 UTMB patients may have been stolen by a contractor last year. The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston mailed letters to the patients whose private information was accessed by an employee of MedAssets, a company hired to assist with billing from third-party payers. The Georgia-based firm employed…