A Phenix City, Alabama, resident was sentenced yesterday to serve 111 months in prison for her role in a more than $3 million Stolen Identity Refund Fraud (SIRF) tax scheme. Carnesha Alexander was also sentenced to three years of supervised release and ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $840,692. On Feb. 5, a…
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Possible ISIS group hacks into 2 local websites
KSDK staff report: Two local websites are back up and running after they were hacked by a group that claimed to be the Middle East terror organization ISIS. The two companies that were impacted were MERS Goodwill and a local digital agency named Elasticity. Early Friday morning, web users who went to the site saw…
Ex-Pratt & Whitney Engineer Denied Bail In Data Theft Suit
Daniel Wilson reports: A Connecticut federal judge on Thursday denied bail to a former Pratt & Whitney engineer accused of stealing sensitive proprietary military aircraft information and unlawfully attempting to take that information to China, after prosecutors argued he was an “obvious” flight risk. Yu Long has been charged with printing out proprietary documents related to advanced materials…
PA: Amazon employee charged with stealing credit card info
Eric Mark reports: West Pittston police have charged an employee of Amazon with stealing credits from customer gift cards and adding them to her own Amazon account. Amanda Budurka, 23, of Hanover Township, was arraigned on felony counts of theft by unlawful taking and access device fraud on Friday before Magisterial District Judge Joseph Carmody….
NC: Nurse, pastor’s wife pleads guilty to ID theft
Diane Turbyfill reports: A Belmont woman used her position as a nurse and pastor’s wife to defraud two elderly people. Deborah Costner Taylor pleaded guilty in court Friday to identity theft and obtaining property by false pretense. […] She is married to the pastor of East Belmont Baptist Church and worked at CaroMont Regional Medical…
Law firm becomes victim of cryptolocker
Ziprick and Cramer LLP are notifying clients after some of their files were locked up by cryptoware.