James Walsh reports: Jason Alan Tauer worked for Ameriquest Mortgage Company as a mortgage associate for only six weeks. Turned out to be a pretty fruitful month and a half for Tauer — and a pretty costly one to nearly 100 people and several financial institutions. Using personal information he lifted from the mortgage applications…
MA: Former Revere resident details family’s national credit card fraud, ID theft scheme
Details of a Revere family’s nationwide credit card and identification theft scheme were disclosed by a convicted family member who testified Friday at the federal court trial of the lone remaining defendant, an associate from Texas. Donald Desimone, Jr., 45, formerly of 43 Hight St., Revere, who currently awaits a February sentencing, described the massive…
(follow-up) NY: White Plains Entrepreneur Sentenced to 76 Months in Prison for Identity Theft
Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that Terrence Chalk, the former CEO of Compulinx Managed Services, was sentenced yesterday to 76 months in prison for his participation in a conspiracy to make false statements and representations to financial institutions in connection with applications for loans, lines of…
Ca: Review finds government officials botched handling of privacy breach
Rob Shaw and Lindsay Kines report: Mistakes, missed opportunities and bureaucratic bungling led more than two dozen officials to botch the B.C. government’s response to a major privacy breach, according to a scathing internal review released yesterday. The investigation found supervisors in four provincial ministries used poor judgment and failed to alert the right people…
UK: Information safety fears as personal data is lost
Adam Morris and Michael Blackley report: Fresh fears have been raised over the protection of personal information after both the city council and NHS Lothian were hit by new “data loss” incidents. The Evening News has uncovered a series of cases where sensitive information has been lost or stolen in the past year. They range…
Fresno man convicted in ID theft scheme
Pablo Lopez reports: A jury took less than three hours to convict a Fresno man making fake identification cards and masterminding a scheme in which credit card information was unlawfully obtained from unsuspecting restaurant customers. Brett Ronald Matteson Jr., 38, wiped tears from his eyes when the 105-count verdict was announced today in Fresno County…