Jon Burstein reports: A former Broward high school teacher was sentenced Friday to six months on house arrest for stealing students’ identities. Sheyla Diaz, 44, had pleaded guilty in May to a federal identity theft charge, admitting she filled out credit card applications using the names of former high school students. She resigned in January…
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(follow-up) Ex-staffer pleads guilty to massive T-Mobile data scam
Chris Williams reports: A former T-Mobile employee has admitted his role in the illegal sale of massive volumes of customer data to marketers. David Turley, of Birmingham, 39, pleaded guilty to 18 charges under section 55 of the Data Protection Act at Chester Crown Court on Thursday. He is yet to be sentenced. […] The…
(follow-up) Former FDIC Employee Fined for Leaking Financial Data
Merikay Wootton, 63, Lenexa, Kan., has been sentenced to 24 months probation and fined $3,600 for disclosing confidential information while she was an employee of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Wootton pleaded guilty to unlawfully disclosing confidential information from a government agency. In her plea, she admitted she was working as a loan officer for…
Almost Five Years in Prison for Pharmacy Owner Slash Identity Thief
Lucian Constantin reports: A pharmacy owner from Maryland was sentenced to 57 months in prison for misusing her customers’ personal information and selling mislabeled meds. The identity thief filed fake reimbursement claims for inexistent prescription refills in the name of other patients. According to authorities, Pamela Arrey, 49, owned two pharmacies in Baltimore, operating under…
Former Bank of New York Mellon computer tech pleads guilty
The Associated Press reports that Adeniyi Adeyemi, a former computer technician at Bank of New York Mellon, pleaded guilty to computer tampering and other charges. Adeyemi reportedly admitted to stealing 2,000 other employees’ identities and then using their ID’s for years to loot about $1 million from charities. Adeyemi had been indicted in October…
TX: Another Pleads Guilty in Botnet Hacking Conspiracy
Thomas James Frederick Smith, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Jane J. Boyle to conspiracy to intentionally cause damage to a protected computer and to commit computer fraud, announced U.S. Attorney James T. Jacks of the Northern District of Texas. Smith’s co-defendant, David Anthony Edwards, pleaded guilty to the same offense on April 29,…