ID Theft Criminal Sentenced to 309 Years in Prison

Robert Thompson, also known as John Lawson, age 43, of Zachary, La., was sentenced to a term of 309 years in prison. Thompson, the leader of a massive identity theft and bribery scheme, was sentenced based on charges of conspiracy, wire fraud, mail fraud, bank fraud, computer fraud, access device...

Ex-United Way IT Employee Sentenced to 18 Months

Former United Way employee based in Miami, Luis Robert Altamirano, was sentenced to 18 months in jail and fined $50,000 for accessing his former employers’ network and deleting “numerous files from UWMD’s servers” and disabling “UWMD’s telephone voice mail system and prevented UWMD employees from...

Operation Phish Phry Nets 100 Cyber Criminals

The largest number of defendants ever charged in a cyber-crime case have been indicted in a multinational investigation conducted in the United States and Egypt that uncovered a sophisticated “phishing” operation that fraudulently collected personal information from thousands of victims that was...