(update): Police arrest Texas man in Cal identity theft case

[lyger <lyger () attrition org>]

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.

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