New York - A restaurant worker allegedly masterminded the largest theft of identities in Internet history and is suspected of stealing millions of dollars from celebrities, billionaires and executives such as Steven Spielberg and Ted Turner, the New York Post said yesterday.
The newspaper quoted New York police detectives as saying that the high-school dropout, Mr Abraham Abdallah (32), duped more than 200 of the "Richest People in America" listed in Forbes magazine by skillfully using computers in a Brooklyn library. Mr Abdallah has denied any wrongdoing, the newspaper said. He faces federal fraud charges but his lawyer declined comment.