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(update): Police arrest Texas man in Cal identity theft case
From: lyger <lyger () attrition org>
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 19:11:40 +0000 (UTC)
http://www.pe.com/ap_news/California/CA_Identity_Theft_Arrest_349407C.shtml A man has been charged in Texas in an identity theft case that affected more than 1,100 students at the University of California, Irvine, authorities said Friday. Michael Tyrone Thomas, 27, of Fort Worth, was arrested Tuesday at his home there and is charged by Dallas County prosecutors with one count of the fraudulent use of identifying information, UC Irvine campus police Chief Paul Henisey said. [.] Authorities allege Thomas breached computer security at the Dallas office of UnitedHealthcare's department of student resources while he worked there in December 2007. Henisey said Thomas stole a file containing the names and Social Security numbers of 1,132 UCI graduate and medical students. He said fake tax returns were filed for 163 of them. [...] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tenable Network Security offers data leakage and compliance monitoring solutions for large and small networks. Scan your network and monitor your traffic to find the data needing protection before it leaks out! http://www.tenablesecurity.com/products/compliance.shtml
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