Nick Gardner reports: The identity crimes report, which was commissioned by credit company Veda Advantage and conducted by Galaxy Research, found more than 1.5 million people’s credit cards had been skimmed and 1.2 million people’s bank accounts were illegally accessed. Many more people’s mail containing PINs and other information that can be used to create…
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Hackers Breach Payroll Giant, Target Customers
Brian Krebs reports: Hackers last week apparently used stolen account information from a New Jersey company that provides online payroll services to target the firm’s customers in a scheme to steal passwords and other information. […] Unlike typical so-called “phishing” scams — which are sent indiscriminately to large numbers of people in the hopes that…
Canada: Privacy an erroneous excuse for withholding HIV status
As a follow-up to a situation previously described here, there was an editorial in today’s Regina Leader-Post: It qualifies as a “medical error” of sorts. No, we’re not talking about a bungled procedure, but the refusal of health-care workers to tell a Saskatoon woman her boyfriend was HIV positive. Frantic with worry after an immunodeficiency…
Canada: Two Brampton men charged in identity thefts
Tamara Baluja reports: Two men have been arrested in a major identity theft case that spread across the country, says the RCMP. The Mounties’ GTA Commercial Crime Section recovered “hundreds of thousands of dollars” worth of driver’s licences, credits cards, debit cards and cheques, said Inspector Art Pittman. “It is one of our largest files….
Former Army finance technician sentenced for ID theft
Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that Reynaldo Jimenez was sentenced to 42 months in prison for theft of identity information belonging to over 35 active duty U.S. military service members he then used to steal pay due to those service members. United States District Judge John…
Two men indicted for ID theft and wire fraud
A federal grand jury had indicated a Georgia man and a Maryland man on charges they possessed 15 or more counterfeited credit cards and equipment for making fraudulent credit or bank-debit cards, United States Attorney Joyce White Vance announced. Sinzinkayo Haji Sinzinkayo, 38, of Jonesboro, Ga., and Damilola Odegbile, also known as “Tony Allen,” 22,…