NEW YORK - Authorities are linking a Georgia man to the biggest case of identity theft in U.S. history with losses nearing $3 million so far. <br>
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Investigators in New York say an insider at a software company sold access to the credit histories of 30,000 people to at least 20 others. <br>
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Authorities say the scheme began about three years ago when Philip Cummings of Cartersville, Georgia - a help-desk worker at Teledata Communications Incorporated - a Long Island computer software company, agreed to sell to an unidentified co-conspirator the passwords and codes for downloading consumer credit reports. <br>
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The FBI also charged Linus Baptiste and Hakeem Mohammed with roles in the far-flung fraud. <br>
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Federal authorities are trying to figure out how many people had money stolen. <br>
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Some victims have already reported losing money from their bank accounts, seeing their credit cards hit with unauthorized charges, and having their identities assumed by strangers.
