Another snooping case: An Illinois woman pleaded guilty today to illegally accessing numerous confidential student loan files, Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division announced. Charlotte M. Robinson, 46, of Dolton, Ill., pleaded guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge Susan E. Cox in the Northern District of Illinois to a one-count criminal information…
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CA: Elk Grove man pleads guilty to card fraud
Richard Nuwintore, 42, of Elk Grove, pleaded guilty before United States District Judge William B. Shubb to one count of access device fraud. The plea was announced by United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner. According to court documents, Nuwintore used other people’s credit cards without their authorization to purchase airline tickets for himself and others….
(follow-up) Tulsa woman’s sentence nearly 4 years for credit-card fraud
David Harper reports the follow-up to a case previously reported here and here: A Tulsa woman was sentenced Tuesday to three years and nine months in prison for her role in a credit-card fraud case that involved personal identifying information being taken from St. Francis Hospital’s computer system. Teresa Browning, 36, also was ordered by…
(update) British teenager faces jail for selling details of thousands of U.S. bank accounts in $19m internet scam
More coverage of the Nick Webber/GhostMarket.net case, mentioned previously on this site. Webber reportedly admitted in court today to masterminding the sale of 65,000 bank details. … Webber, who is the son of former Guernsey politician Tony Webber, was caught with details of 100,000 credit cards on his laptop – representing a potential loss to…
Liberty Coalition gives University of Hawaii an ‘F’ for data breaches
In a news report headlined, “Data breaches earn UH an ‘F’,” Gordon Y.K. Pang reports: A national organization has given the University of Hawaii a grade of “F” for online security breaches that exposed Social Security numbers and other sensitive information in nearly 260,000 records. The Liberty Coalition, a nonprofit civil liberties watchdog group, yesterday…
NZ: Hawke’s Bay man used keyloggers to capture public wi-fi users’ bank logins
Just a man and his keylogger. A computer-hacking fraudster has been given a community-based sentence for stealing $8538 from bank accounts via the internet. Judge Tony Adeane, in Napier District Court last Friday, sentenced Hawke’s Bay man Matthew Fraser, 25, to 200 hours of community work and ordered him to repay the money. Fraser had…