Levi Pulkkinen reports: Two Seattle men described by prosecutors as “methodical criminals” are now accused of breaking into clinics, a law office and mailboxes during an identity theft spree. King County prosecutors claim Duane Nelson, 42, and Randolph Chechak, 47, attacked the credit of more than a dozen people while stealing more than $100,000 during…
Month: July 2015
Online Cheating Site AshleyMadison Hacked
Brian Krebs reports: Large caches of data stolen from online cheating site AshleyMadison.com have been posted online by an individual or group that claims to have completely compromised the company’s user databases, financial records and other proprietary information. The still-unfolding leak could be quite damaging to some 37 million users of the hookup service, whose slogan is…
Another escort service-related site hacked with data dumped
@ElSurveillance, who has attacked a number of escort service-related sites such as the MeetMeInYourCity.com hack, has released another data dump tonight – this one for Captain 69™ Worldwide Escort Reviews. @ElSurveillance posted 2,653 usernames and passwords from the UK site, with a note pointing people to crackstation.net to crack the sha256 to plain-text passwords. Well, at least the site tried to secure…
MeetMeInYourCity user email addresses and passwords dumped (updated)
From MeetMeInYourCity.com, a site that describes itself as a “directory listing of independent escorts, exotic dancers, strippers’ adult entertainers, masseuse and escort agencies,” here’s part of their Terms & Conditions: Secure technology is used to ensure your sensitive information is secure and protected from unauthorised access or improper use. […] Your personal password is confidential and…
Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt Charges Rehab Specialist for Medicaid Fraud, Identity Theft
July 17 – Attorney General Scott Pruitt on Friday filed one felony count of each Medicaid fraud and identity theft against an Oklahoma City behavioral health specialist. Timothy Nickalas Traylor, 35, of Oklahoma City, allegedly billed the Oklahoma Health Care Authority for 56 phony sessions between October 2011 and October 2013 while working for Pennington Creek Lifehouse,…
MI: Farmington Hills man accused of hospital ID theft takes plea deal; second suspect still negotiating
Matt Fahr reports that two people accused of participating in an identification theft scam involving 1,400 patients of Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital and DMC Harper Hospital in Detroit are in the process of taking plea deals. Martez Lear, 29 of Farmington Hills and Markitta Washington, 29 of Hampton, Georgia and formerly of Farmington Hills, were indicted…