Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich announced a State Grand Jury indicted 18-year-old Meetkumar Desai for allegedly carrying out a reckless cyberattack on 911 emergency call systems in Maricopa County. Desai is facing four felony counts of Computer Tampering. On October 27, 2016, the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office Cybercrimes Unit arrested Desai after 4 law enforcement…
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Anti-Trump Protesters Post Personal Information Of Electoral College Members
Blake Montgomery reports: The #NotMyPresident Alliance, a national anti-Donald Trump protest group, has released the personal information of dozens of Electoral College members in states that voted Republican. A spreadsheet distributed to supporters Wednesday included the personal phone numbers, addresses, religions, races, genders, and candidate preference of the electors. The document does not have a…
Corrections director charged with using database to spy on wife’s suspected lover
WYDaily reports: A former James City County on-call police officer and the current director of Colonial Community Corrections is facing invasion of privacy charges after allegedly using a police database to look up information on a man he suspected was having an affair with his wife. Harold Diggs III, 51, director of Colonial Community Corrections…
HCMC Employee Sentenced for Fraudulently Using Patients’ Credit Cards
ABC5 reports: A Hennepin County Medical Center employee who pleaded guilty to fraudulently using patients’ credit cards was sentenced Monday. Thirty-five-year-old Elizabeth Tavarez of Fridley pleaded guilty in September to one count of identity theft. On Monday, she received a stay of imposition and will be on probation for three years. She will also have…
Chicago Public Schools worker gave student names, addresses to charter for mailers
Lauren FitzPatrick reports: A Chicago Public Schools employee improperly released some student names, home addresses and current schools to the Noble Network of Charter Schools — details that were used in recruitment mailings sent just before CPS’ official student count, district officials have told some parents in a letter. It’s not clear how the information…
Miami-Dade County, Florida, Man Charged With Conspiracy To Commit Health Care Fraud
Here’s a case of insurance info theft to fuel a fraud scheme: NEWARK, N.J. – A Florida man has been charged in connection with his role in establishing fake medical facilities in New Jersey and billing insurance companies for services that were never performed, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced. Eduardo Arango Chong, 21, of Hialeah,…