As an update to the story here: A spokesperson for the U.S. Attorney’s Office informs me that the 5 men who were indicted today were not employees of T-Mobile. They allegedly accessed and acquired the customer data via an authorization code that they obtained from the owner of a T-Mobile store. The owner of that…
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T-mobile customer data used in fraud; 5 indicted
A number of Michigan news sources such as the Detroit News are reporting that an indictment has been unsealed against five Detroit men who used T-Mobile USA records to find customers with good credit. They then allegedly opened accounts with HSBC to obtain credit that they used to purchase computers and other electronics from Hewlett…
Bits ‘n Pieces
In the criminal justice system: As a follow-up to a case previously reported, former Navy petty officer, Cora Dixon, pleaded guilty and accepted a 15-year prison sentence for helping run an identity theft ring. She was accused of using her access to direct deposits at the Fort Worth Reserve Joint Base to take banking and…
UK: Police probing wide-scale bank card cloning claims
Justin Dunn reports that Wirral police are investigating possible large-scale cloning of credit and debit cards which have all been used at the same business in Wallasey. Most of the suspect transactions are believed to have been attempted in India and Canada, with the amounts ranging between £300 and £3,000. It is believed that all…
Rogue app ruins Facebook’s weekend
Social networks Facebook and MySpace were dealing with new security issues on Friday that could compromise personal information and communications from friends. […] One of the problems is that Facebook allows anybody to write an application, and third-party applications are not vetted before they are made available to the public. So, even as Facebook stamps…
UHW Trustees Working to Address Security Breach (update 1)
Statement of Dave Regan, Trustee of United Healthcare Workers West (UHW), regarding the recent disclosure of a security breach at UHW in July 2007 of 29,500 workers, resulting in credit and identity theft problems for 155 employees of Kaiser Permanente: Last month, UHW was placed in trusteeship after an outside hearing officer confirmed a number…