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Computer admin sentenced for hacking LifeGift

Posted on July 16, 2009 by Dissent

The former director of information technology for a non-profit organ and tissue donation center was sentenced today to two years in prison for hacking into her former employer’s computer network. Danielle Duann, 51, of Houston, pleaded guilty on April 30, 2009, to a one-count criminal indictment charging her with unauthorized computer access. Duann was sentenced…

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Wachovia teller accused of stealing info

Posted on July 15, 2009 by Dissent

A Hampton woman stands charged in Williamsburg of using her Wachovia bank teller position to access customer information and open fraudulent credit card accounts in their names for a commission. On the severity scale of identity theft — a crime the Federal Trade Commission says victimizes nine million Americans each year — the case involving…

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Man stole identities from prison inmates

Posted on July 15, 2009 by Dissent

He had at least five names, but just one that belonged to him. The others, authorities say, he stole with exquisite skill and confounding cunning from prison inmates in Mississippi. Then Johnny Peden, a balding, smooth-talking 45-year-old, used those names to steal and steal, investigators say, concocting one of the most elaborate and long-running one-man…

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Bits ‘n Pieces

Posted on July 15, 2009 by Dissent

In the justice system: A medical student at Saint Joseph College from Nigeria, was charged June 29 in federal court with bank fraud and aggravated identity theft affecting 80 victims. Cambridge police arrested Wayne Deleveaux for using government accounts from Mount Auburn Hospital to fraudulently buy hundreds of BlackBerry Storms last week. He reportedly had…

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Burglary of state storage facility creates ID theft concern

Posted on July 15, 2009 by Dissent

More than ten thousand letters sent by the Arizona Department of Economic Security to notify people about stolen private information have been returned as undeliverable, opening these individuals to the prospect of identity theft without warning. Thieves targeted a Phoenix storage facility near 7th Street and Indian School Road last October, taking two hard drives….

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Western Beaver Sues ESB Bank

Posted on July 14, 2009 by Dissent

Western Beaver School District has sued Ellwood City-based ESB Bank, saying the bank allowed someone to siphon more than $700,000 from two accounts while school administrators were off during the Christmas break in December and January. The district says it’s still missing nearly $450,000. According to the suit filed in Beaver County Court, someone infected…

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