A former database administrator for GEXA Energy has been convicted following his guilty plea to intruding into his former employer’s computer database system. The conviction of Steven Jinwoo Kim, 40, was announced yesterday by United States Attorney Tim Johnson. At a hearing before U.S. District Judge Vanessa Gilmore, Kim admitted to recklessly causing damage to…
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T-Mobile UK customer data sold
As an update to a report filed earlier today, Marc Chacksfield of TechRadar reports that it is T-Mobile at the heart of the data-selling scandal. The company released a statement: “T-Mobile takes the protection of customer information seriously. When it became apparent that contract renewal information was being passed on to third parties without our…
AZ: Former Quebedeaux employee sentenced for fraud and identity theft
Leasa Conze reports: A former Quebedeaux Pontiac employee was sentenced today to five years in prison after pleading guilty to bank fraud and aggravated identity theft. John Savage III,from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, moved to Tucson In October 2007 and took a job with the local dealership, where he had access to customer credit cards. Read…
Resort worker sentenced for ID theft
Carl Hessler Jr. reports: A man who worked at a Florida resort received a time-served jail sentence for stealing the identities of more than 100 vacationers, including some from Collegeville and West Norriton, and using the credit card information to pay for his own trips. Carlos Raynard Roberts, 22, who worked as a booking agent…
Bits ‘n Pieces
In the justice system: As an update to a story previously reported, John B. Spencer III, and Donald E. Stoner, both of Lancaster have pleaded guilty to an ID theft scheme that targeted DUI offenders in Pennsylvania by using information provided in their publicly available court records. A grand jury has indicted five men and…
Indian outsourcing boss arrested for selling medical records
From the Mail Foreign Service: The head of an Indian outsourcing company has been arrested for selling confidential medical records of patients treated at one of Britain’s top private hospitals. Police arrested Vikas Dhairyashil Bansode on Tuesday after an undercover investigation revealed the records were being sold for as little as £4 each. Hundreds of…