As a follow-up to a case previously reported here, James B. Drake, the former University of Central Missouri police officer who pleaded guilty in January to stealing student identification information and conspiracy to commit identity theft, was sentenced by a federal judge in Kansas City to five years of probation. His wife is scheduled to…
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Dallas woman gets statutory maximum sentence in mail theft and aggravated ID theft case
Shannon Palmer, 42, of Dallas, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Reed C. O’Connor to the statutory maximum sentence of seven years in federal prison, without parole, for mail theft and aggravated identity theft, announced U.S. Attorney James T. Jacks of the Northern District of Texas. Palmer, who has been in custody since her arrest…
Threat Level Privacy, Crime and Security Online Prosecutors Seek 6 Year Sentence for TJX Hacker’s ‘Trusted’ Accomplice
Kim Zetter reports: If TJX hacker Albert Gonzalez had gone to trial instead of pleading out, one man would have been the primary witness against him — accomplice Damon Patrick Toey. Toey, identified often in court documents simply as “PT,” provided information that investigators say likely helped persuade Gonzalez to plead guilty last year to…
(follow-up) District Data Breach Leads to Prison Time
Dian Schaffhauser reports: A Washington State man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to 31 counts of criminal activity, most related to a school district data breach. Christopher Berge, now 21, was a student at Mountain View High School in Evergreen Public Schools when he “shoulder surfed”–physically observed–a password used…
Brokerage Account Hacker Gets 3 Years in Jail
A computer hacker was sentenced to 3 years and 1 month in prison yesterday for hacking into brokerage accounts at Charles Schwab and laundering more than $246,000, some of which he sent to co-conspirators in Russia. From September 2006 to December 2007, Aleksey Volynskiy used Trojan horse computer viruses to steal victims’ personal account information…
Oregon man faces prison for longtime identity theft
Sanne Specht reports: A Medford man was sentenced Monday to one year and one day in prison for stealing the identity of a North Carolina man more than 40 years ago. Gerald Lester Tracy, 65, also must pay back more than $28,000 in fraudulently obtained Social Security benefits, U.S. District Court Judge Owen Panner ruled….