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It wasn’t a good day for chicken Sales Manager Pat Gomez last July when he discovered someone had created a fake LinkedIn profile of him.   Gomez says he quickly learned the fake Pat Gomez was also using his profile to reach out to customers and set up deals. The Gomez imposter was trying to scam one customer in...

NBC 5 Investigates found an automated scammer stealing someone’s identity on a popular social media business site, but this time messing with the wrong person and the wrong company. NBC 5’s Rob Stafford reports.

It started as an innocent email inquiry in August for wedding services to CSP Worldwide from a “Jane” living in the United Kingdom. But no one expected the twists that would follow.

Two computer hackers have pleaded guilty to concocting an extortion scheme that entangled Uber in a yearlong cover-up of a data breach that stole sensitive information about 57 million of the ride-hailing service’s passengers and drivers. The pleas entered Wednesday in a San Jose, California, federal court by Brandon Charles Glover and Vasile Mereacre resurrected another unseemly episode in Uber’s...

A Broadway producer with ties to one of the biggest fraud scandals in theatre history faces child pornography charges after an early morning raid at his Harlem home Tuesday.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s personal security chief faces accusations of sexual misconduct and making racist and homophobic comments, according to a report Thursday by a business news site. In a detailed article, Business Insider cited legal letters reportedly written by former employees of Zuckerberg’s household staff. The letters reportedly described pervasive discriminatory conduct and severe levels of sexual harassment and...

Police are investigating a homicide after a brother of the Mariano’s grocery store founder was found dead in northwest suburban Schaumburg.

The Memorial Day weekend is already proving to be a violent one, and NBC 5’s Trina Orlando has the latest details on the number of shootings so far. 

Tesla’s security team sent a warning to employees this week to stop leaking company information. The email, which was shared with CNBC and verified with multiple current employees who requested anonymity, warned that outsiders who “will do anything to see us fail” are “targeting” employees for information via social networks and other methods.

Square co-founder Tristan O’Tierney is dead at age 35, according to comments made by his family to the San Francisco Chronicle. He passed away on February 23. “Tristan was part of Square’s founding story and we are deeply saddened by his passing,” a Square spokesperson told CNBC. “Our thoughts are with his family and friends.” O’Tierney left Square in 2013.

Police arrested a teen boy accused of shooting and killing a father who tried to protect his daughter during a carjacking in the Spring Garden section of the city Thursday night.

The Better Business Bureau is issuing a warning to consumers as it says complaints about check scams have skyrocketed in recent years.

A warning has been issued in the Chicago-area as more and more people are falling victim to scammers and counterfeit checks. NBC 5’s Lauren Petty has the details.

Apple has attracted scores of employees away from Tesla since late 2017, including manufacturing, security and software engineers, and, more recently, supply chain experts, according to several current and former Tesla employees and LinkedIn data. This Tesla talent is not only going to Apple’s stealthy vehicle initiative, Project Titan. Apple also generally needs software, display, optics and battery-tech talent for...

An 83-year-old man has been charged with fatally shooting an attorney who previously served as a northwest Indiana judge.

new details are emerging in the murder of a prominent attorney from NW Indiana today, and prosecutors have charged one of his clients. NBC 5’s Charlie Wojciechowski has the story. 

A top gang prosecutor in San Bernardino County has been put on administrative leave while the District Attorney’s Office investigates discriminatory comments he made on social media, District Attorney Mike Ramos said Monday.

A U.S. State Department employee has pleaded guilty to producing child pornography, in part by using his work-issued cellphone and a secret camera.

A UCLA professor died after participating in “recreational mummification bondage” at a Hollywood executive’s Log Angeles home last year, according to an autopsy report obtained this month. Doran George, also known as Duncan Gilbert, 48, died during a BDSM-related activity at the home of Skip Chasey on Nov. 19, 2017.

A 57-year-old woman died after falling from a swing Tuesday afternoon at the NeoCon show held at the Merchandise Mart in River North.