Nora R. Dannehy, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Angelique Mullings, also known as “Angelique Eubanks,” “Angelique Scott,” “Angelique Mullins,” “Angelique Sales” and “Angelique Salis,” 39, of West Haven, waived her right to indictment and pleaded guilty yesterday before United States District Judge Christopher F. Droney in Hartford to one count…
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Shell employee contact data breach affects over 100,000
The following was posted by John Donavan and attributed to Royal Dutch Shell (“Shell”) Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer Richard Wiseman: Colleagues, I am writing to inform you of an incident involving misuse of company data. It has become clear recently that the Global Address List, containing contact information of everyone in Shell and some…
London moves to buy stolen bank data
Vanessa Houlder reports: Britain has approached Germany to buy data stolen from a Swiss bank in an effort to discover details of accounts hidden in the country by potential UK tax evaders. […] A number of German politicians, as well as the Swiss government, have criticised Berlin’s decision to purchase the stolen data. Although the…
Swiss Data Affair Could Pay Off Handsomely for Germany
The extent of tax evasion by a number of German citizens with Swiss bank accounts appears to be far wider than originally thought. As the German government prepares to fork out a considerable sum for a CD with information about Germans suspected of dodging taxes, a newspaper reports that tax authorities could recover up to…
TX: (follow-up) Memorial Hermann worker sentenced for bank fraud, ID theft
As a follow-up to a case previously mentioned on this site: A former patient care assistant of a Houston area hospital has been sentenced to prison for bank fraud and stealing the identities of patients, United States Attorney Tim Johnson announced today. Nakeshia Brown, 30, of Houston, was sentenced to a total of 60 months…
Why Germany Is Paying Millions in Ransom For Stolen Bank Data
Tristiana Moore reports: The announcement may have caused some super-rich Germans to tremble in their designer shoes. On Tuesday, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaüble said the government has agreed to buy a computer CD from an anonymous informant that contains the stolen bank details of up to 1,500 people suspected of evading German taxes by…