Stephen Ceasar reports: A former Marana Police Officer has been indicted on charges of computer tampering and identity theft. Calvin Ingram, 39, is facing charges of using police databases for non-law enforcement purposes and sharing the information with non-law enforcement people, an Arizona Attorney General Office news release said. Officials say he used the databases…
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Judge Gives Preliminary OK To Countrywide breach settlement
Brett Barrouquere of the Associated Press reports: A federal judge has given preliminary approval to a settlement between Countrywide Financial Corp., and millions of customers whose detailed financial information was exposed in a security breach. Under the terms of the settlement, Countrywide, now owned by Bank of America, would give up to 17 million people…
ID theft and bank fraud ringleader sentenced
Alonzo Lamar Holloway, 44, of Oakland, California, was sentenced on Monday on a four-count Indictment that charged him with bank fraud, wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and with conspiracy to commit bank and wire fraud and identity theft. Holloway, who is one of 16 defendants from Oakland charged in a long-running investigation conducted by the…
UPDATE: France agrees to hand back ‘stolen’ Swiss bank data
From the Agence France-Presse: France said Monday it would agree to a Swiss request to hand back data taken from a HSBC bank branch in Geneva that is at the centre of a row between the two countries. France said Monday it would agree to a Swiss request to hand back data taken from a…
(follow-up) HSBC denies ignored pvt bank whistleblower warning
Reuters reports on another aspect of HSBC-French tax mess: the ex-employee’s allegations that he tried to warn the private bank: IT specialist Herve Falciani, an ex-HSBC employee accused of handing data taken in 2006 and 2007 to the French, told Le Figaro he had passed the information to French tax authorities after it was ignored…
B.C. civil servant accused of sending personal data to U.S. border guard
More from CanWest on a Canadian breach reported previously over on PogoWasRight.org: A B.C. government employee under investigation for an alleged privacy breach is accused of e-mailing personal data about government clients to an American border guard in Washington state. Government sources confirmed Friday that the employee, who works from the Lower Mainland for the…