Three former retail employees with AT&T have been sued on charges that the moonlighted on the side helping resellers unlock AT&T phones fraudulently.
Marc Sapatin, Nguyen Lam, and Kyra Evans worked at an AT&T call center in Washington state in 2013, and AT&T filed a lawsuit last week alleging that the were the center of an “Unlock Scheme” to create and distribute malware in AT&T’s computer systems, allowing them to unlocked hundreds of thousands of phones with AT&T’s network, according to a PC Mag report.
They did this for a fee, AT&T alleges, saying that there was a fourth party that paid Evans $20,000 for her placement of malware programs on AT&T’s protected computer systems. Sapatin allegedly received $10,000.
Supposedly, the malware sent proprietary AT&T information to the defendants and 50 other “John Doe” defendants that were named in the complaint.