Koleowo Adeyemi Adesoye, 28, of Houston, was sentenced to 13 ½ years in federal prison without parole for his involvement in planning and executing an international identity theft scheme causing $2 million in losses to financial institutions, United States Attorney Tim Johnson announced today. United States District Judge Ewing Werlein Jr. handed down the prison…
Category: Theft
Alico leak points to provider staff
As an update to a previously reported breach, Kyodo News reports: Insurer Alico Japan released Friday the results of its internal probe on a recent mass-scale data leak from customers’ credit cards, concluding that the data on more than 18,000 customers may have been stolen by employees of a computer-related service provider with access to…
Former Employee of U.S. Attorney’s Office in Philadelphia admits using defendants’ identities to commit fraud
A former employee with the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (“EDPA”) pleaded guilty today to federal charges, admitting she used a government-issued computer and defendants’ personal information to perpetrate a fraud totaling approximately $34,435, Acting U.S. Attorney Ralph J. Marra, Jr., announced. Shakila Nakia Wallace, 25, of Philadelphia, pleaded guilty…
Four Springfield residents indicted for identity theft, counterfeit check conspiracy
Matt J. Whitworth, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that four Springfield, Mo., residents were indicted by a federal grand jury for their roles in an identity theft and check-counterfeiting conspiracy. The scheme involved false identification documents that were used to negotiate more than $100,000 in counterfeit checks, including thousands…
Employees: Sensitive info stolen during break-in; clients not being told
Mike Bowersock of NBC4i reports that although a burglary at NCO Financial Systems, a collection agency in Dublin Ohio, was reported to the police, what was not reported was that client data, including Social Security numbers, was stolen. The allegation comes from two employees who reportedly told the news reporter that they do not want…
Judge considers giving final approval to TD Ameritrade settlement
Josh Funk of Associated Press reports: The settlement over contact information stolen from online brokerage TD Ameritrade Holding Corp. is nearing approval, but the more than 6 million current and former customers affected will have to wait a little while longer. A hearing on the settlement was held Thursday, but U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker…