A La Mesa tax preparer was convicted Thursday of 32 felony counts related to his business, including identity theft and tax, Social Security and Medi-Cal fraud. Saleh Mahmoud Zahran, 50, was found guilty by a jury of the charges following a two-week trial in U.S. District Court in San Diego. His wife, 35- year-old Maysa…
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“Delpiero” to be extradited to U.S. by Malaysia
The Criminal Court on Thursday decided to extradite a Malaysian suspected computer hacker to the United States for further legal action. Gooi Kokseng, alias Delpiero, 44, is wanted by the US for being a member of a gang of credit cards data hackers which had committed computer crime in the US and Southeast Asia causing…
Patient data stolen from WFUBMC employee’s car
A bag containing a document with the names and Social Security numbers of 554 patients of Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center was stolen from an employee’s locked car, medical center officials said today. The theft happened Feb. 15 in the parking deck of an off-campus outpatient clinic, officials said. The list did not include…
Alaska state employees’ union wants more protection after breach
The Alaska State Employees Association (ASEA) is seemingly unhappy with the two-year benefits plan being offered to over 77,000 state employees whose data were lost by PricewaterhouseCooper. The personal information included their names, social security numbers, and dates of birth. ASEA represents almost 8,000 of the state employees. In a press release issued today, ASEA…
Memo to arrestee: a flash drive is not a goldfish
The Smoking Gun reports: In a bold and bizarre attempt to destroy evidence seized during a federal raid, a New York City man grabbed a flash drive and swallowed the data storage device while in the custody of Secret Service agents, records show. Florin Necula ingested the Kingston flash drive shortly after his January 21…
Illinois Department of Insurance won’t fine MetLife… for now
Would the state of Illinois have treated a bank or health care provider the same way if the same data had been exposed by them? The Illinois Department of Insurance says it won’t fine insurance agency MetLife, at least for now, after a 13 News investigation revealed MetLife files were thrown into a dumpster without being…