On April 30, in Bits ‘n Pieces, I reported an arrest in Texas that involved an insider at unnamed banks and mortgage companies. Subsequently, Sam LaGrone of Air Force Times reported on the case because the man arrested, Isaac McCrumby, was posing as an Air Force reservist during a crime spree that allegedly netted $500,000…
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Bits ‘n Pieces
In the justice system: As a follow-up to a breach covered on PogoWasRight.org last year, Anthony Wood, 45, a/k/a Anthony Bickerstaff, was sentenced to four years in prison and ordered to pay $67,292 in restitution for using stolen personal information of customers at Commerce Bank in Mount Laurel. Co-defendants Jennifer Mullner, a former loan services…
4 more employees gone after sneaking into octuplets’ files
Sarah Tully of The Orange County Register reports: Four more hospital employees this week were forced out of their jobs for sneaking into the octuplets’ mother’s private medical records, a hospital spokeswoman confirmed today. Previously, another 15 employees were terminated and eight were disciplined for improperly looking at mother Nadya Suleman’s documents at Kaiser Permanente…
IT director pleads guilty to deleting organ donation records (updated)
Not all data losses are created equal. Grant Gross of IDG News Service reports: The former IT director for a nonprofit organ and tissue donation center pleaded guilty to a charge that she broke into the organization’s computer network and deleted organ donation database records, invoice files, and database and accounting software, the U.S. Department…
Bits ‘n Pieces
In the justice system: In Oregon, Ashley Marie Crayton, Devona Lenee Franklin, and Vivian Wang have been charged with ID theft after a complaint from a Wells Fargo branch. More. In California, Cherie Ann Deloura was arrested on charges relating to a scam in which she added her name as an authorized user to American…
Bits ‘n Pieces
In the justice system: Two Baylor University students, Nicolas Lukashevich and Nicholas Batts, have been arrested in connection with compromised email and social networking accounts. More. In MS, at least a dozen people had their identities stolen by Candance Brown, Kimberly Gentry, Latonja Casnel, and Jamaal Tyler, who used the data to open accounts at…