Former Las Cruces call center employee accused of leaking confidential files

By Ashley Meeks/ameeks@lcsun-news.com
Posted: 07/19/2011 06:42:00 PM MDT

LAS CRUCES - A former Las Cruces call center employee was arrested Tuesday by FBI agents for allegedly leaking confidential files that ended up in the hands of a computer hacking group, the Department of Justice and the FBI announced.

While working as an AT&T customer support representative at Convergys in Las Cruces, Lance Moore allegedly stole confidential business information stored on AT&T's servers and posted it on a public file sharing site, according to the complaint unsealed in the District of New Jersey, where AT&T is headquartered.

On April 10, Moore, 21, allegedly downloaded thousands of documents, PowerPoint presentations, images, PDFs, applications and other files that, on the same day, he allegedly posted on Fileape.com, a public file hosting site that promises user anonymity.

AT&T's Chief Security Office Team in New Jersey discovered the breach on April 16 and found that Moore had downloaded the material in question and accessed Fileape.com using an address on the company's internal network, according to court documents.

In addition, shortly before the upload, Moore had allegedly made "a number of Google searches for uploading files, file hosting and uploading zip files," court documents state.

He was terminated May 19.

On June 25, the computer hacking group LulzSec publicized that they had obtained confidential AT&T documents - the same Moore uploaded - and made them publicly available on the Internet.

Moore was arrested Tuesday morning at his home and made an initial appearance that afternoon in federal court in Las Cruces. He is charged in with one count of accessing a protected computer without authorization.
An indictment and a complaint merely contain allegations. Defendants are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.

Ashley Meeks can be reached at (575) 541-5462

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