Seems like this is the week to talk about IT staff getting locked up. As a former DBA, this guy sounds pretty dumb to me, a good DBA REALLY KNOWS how to cover their tracks.
William Sullivan, a former data base administrator at Fidelity National Information Services Inc., was sentenced to 57 months imprisonment and ordered to pay $3.2 million in restitution for his role in the theft of data from Certegy.
Sullivan pleaded guilty to conspiracy and fraud in the case in November. U.S. District Judge Steven Merryday issued the sentence, a release from U.S. Attorney Robert O’Neill said.
According to court documents, Sullivan exceeded his authorized computer access to unlawfully steal the consumer information of 8.4 million people from all 50 states, the Virgin Islands, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and various foreign countries.
The information stolen included names and addresses, and for 5.3 million people it included either bank account information or credit and debit card information, and sometimes both, the release said. The data was resold from 2002 through 2007 for more than $580,000, primarily to telemarketers.
Fidelity National Information Services (NYSE: FIS), a Jacksonville firm that bought St. Petersburg-based Certegy in 2006, has seen no evidence of the stolen information being used for anything other than marketing purposes, according to a May 9 filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
However, several class action lawsuits seeking monetary damage were filed against Fidelity and were settled in January with the court approving the settlement in March, the filing said. Final approval of the settlement is expected to occur in the third quarter.
http://tampabay.bizjournals.com/tampabay/stories/2008/07/07/daily59.html
There are so many people out there trying to take advantage of others in many ways, and one of the most common and the one that not too many pay attention to is Identity Theft. Before this happened to me, i would have never thought about being a victim, and i was also so unaware of all the ways that your identity can be stolen. After all the headaches that i got from this i decided to become a member of Shieldsafe.com, a company against identity theft with 30 years of law enforcement. They offer really good services and the best part is that i dont have to worry about being a victim anymore.
I guess all the identity theft hype has finally caught up to me. I looked the ShieldSafe ID theft company mentioned above and they seem to offer teh same as the rest of them, but for only 49 dollars. If that discount code works, then that’s a hell of a bargain. I guess i’m in.