Mike Rosenberg reports: A former employee at a San Jose dental office will spend four years in prison for stealing personal information from patient records to create credit card accounts he used to buy Gucci watches and flat-screen TVs, authorities announced Tuesday. Nick Luu and five other members of an identity theft ring defrauded at…
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OH: Candidate for world’s dumbest criminal pleads guilty to attempting to extort Xavier University
It’s not that often that we find out about extortion attempts related to data breaches, so when we do, I try to follow up on them. Here’s a follow-up to an extortion attempt involving Xavier University that I previously covered on this blog. Kimball Perry reports on a very poorly executed crime: Recently released from…
OH: Candidate for world's dumbest criminal pleads guilty to attempting to extort Xavier University
It’s not that often that we find out about extortion attempts related to data breaches, so when we do, I try to follow up on them. Here’s a follow-up to an extortion attempt involving Xavier University that I previously covered on DataBreaches.net. It was not originally covered here because until now, there was no indication…
Kr: Samsung Card asks police to investigate employee for data leak
Samsung Card Co., one of South Korea’s largest credit card firms, has asked the police to investigate an employee on charges of leaking the personal data of its customers, an industry source said Monday. According to the source, Samsung Card discovered through an internal investigation that customers’ data including their names and mobile phone numbers…
(Update and Commentary): Why are states withholding the names of breached entities?
Yet another recent press release – this one from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Connecticut – shields the name of the breached entity: David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that NATASHA SMITH, 25, of Georgia, formerly of Far Rockaway, New York, waived her right to indictment and pleaded guilty yesterday,…
Stolen information worth £300m recovered by GCHQ
Duncan Gardham reports: Details stolen from more than a million credit cards across Europe, worth an estimated £300 million, have been recovered by the GCHQ spy agency, The Daily Telegraph can disclose. William Hague, the Foreign Secretary, said the agency had joined forces with the Serious and Organised Crime Agency to obtain the information as…