James Walsh reports: Jason Alan Tauer worked for Ameriquest Mortgage Company as a mortgage associate for only six weeks. Turned out to be a pretty fruitful month and a half for Tauer — and a pretty costly one to nearly 100 people and several financial institutions. Using personal information he lifted from the mortgage applications…
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(follow-up) NY: White Plains Entrepreneur Sentenced to 76 Months in Prison for Identity Theft
Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that Terrence Chalk, the former CEO of Compulinx Managed Services, was sentenced yesterday to 76 months in prison for his participation in a conspiracy to make false statements and representations to financial institutions in connection with applications for loans, lines of…
Seattle court worker charged with id theft
Levi Pulkklinen reports more on a story previously mentioned on this blog: A week after her alleged conspirators were charged, federal prosecutors have a Seattle Municipal Court employee with bank fraud and identity theft. […] Searching the vehicle, investigators found a number of “profiles” bearing Seattle Municipal Court customers’ names and credit-card numbers, according to…
(follow-up) NY: Breach of privacy earns time in jail
Kenneth C. Crowe II reports on a breach previously covered on this site: A retired clerk at the state Department of Taxation who stole the identities of taxpayers, deceased family members and children to run up more than $200,000 in credit card charges will serve six months in jail. Rensselaer County Court Judge Andrew Ceresia…
For sale: Personal details of millions of Ladbrokes gamblers
Jason Lewis and Sandra White report: The confidential records of millions of British gamblers who bet with top bookmaker Ladbrokes have been offered for sale to The Mail on Sunday. The huge data theft is now at the centre of a criminal investigation after this newspaper was given the personal information of 10,000 Ladbrokes customers…
Update on Columbus Public Health incident
Bill Bush provides additional information on a breach first reported yesterday involving personal information of Columbus Publc Health employees: None of the health department’s 450 employees have reported identity theft, said spokesman Jose Rodriguez. The department thinks the information of as many as 300 current employees and about 100 former employees was compromised, he said….