A former employee of an AT&T store in Portland was yesterday sentenced to 16 months in federal prison for selling access to AT&T’s network to criminals who used customer PII to carry out SIM swaps.
Forty-four-year-old Kenneth Carter was sentenced in a Los Angeles U.S. District Court by Judge Stanley Blumenfeld, who also ordered him to pay nearly $100,000 in restitution.
According to court documents, Carter fraudulently reassigned existing cell phone numbers held by AT&T customers to a hacker, who then accessed their bank accounts and stole almost $600,000…