Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Former Massachusetts inmate charged with Identity Theft

Former Massachusetts prisoner charged with identity theft
by Sachin Seth

Francis Janosko, 42, a former inmate at Plymouth County Correctional facility in Plymouth, has been arrested on charges of identity theft and damage to the prison’s computer network, according to the Department of Justice.

Janosko allegedly found a way to manipulate research computers so that he and other inmates could access files that contained the names, birth dates, phone numbers and Social Security numbers of more than 1,000 current and former prison employees, the DOJ reports. (Full text at blastmagazine.com)

After working over 23 years for the Department of Corrections, this does not surprise me at all. Inmates are given way to many liberties while incarcerated.

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