Evens Claude, 38, of Philadelphia, PA, was sentenced on Friday, August 29, 2014, to 232 months in prison for aggravated identity theft, bank fraud, access device fraud, counterfeit currency fraud, and conspiracy. U.S. District Court Judge Jan E. DuBois also ordered Claude to pay $609,210 in restitution. Claude represented himself at sentencing. Between 2008 and…
Category: ID Theft
DE: Man Charged in $4 Million Tax Fraud Scheme Involving Hundreds of Stolen Identities
I’m not really sure whether this belongs on this blog on phiprivacy.net because they don’t tell us where/how the identity information was obtained, so I am posting it here: WILMINGTON, Del. – Charles M. Oberly, III, United States Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced that an Indictment has been handed down by a federal…
Update on Albertsons breach
Lindsay Nadric reports: Earlier this month Albertsons announced a data breach affecting customers who shopped in their stores any time between June 22, 2014 and July 17, 2014. Before Friday, it was unclear which stores were impacted, but fraud investigators with AB Acquisition LLC, the company Albertsons is using to provide complimentary consumer identity protection…
NY Man Pleads Guilty to Bank Fraud and Aggravated Identity Theft; Ring Stole 1,800 Wells Fargo Mortgage Files
Jeffrey Washington, 36, of New York, NY, pled guilty yesterday to conspiracy to commit bank fraud and aggravated identity theft. According to a statement of facts filed with his plea agreement, Washington was a leader of a group that conspired to steal identity and financial information from Wells Fargo Mortgage offices. There were twelve Wells…
Mississippi woman sentenced for her role in stolen identity fraud case
Ladonna Cooper, age 30, of Jackson, was sentenced earlier this week to 20 months for conspiracy to defraud the United States. Cooper, a former employee of the Mississippi Department of Corrections, previously pled guilty to stealing personal identifying information, including names and social security numbers, from the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility located in Rankin County….
Double whammy? Central Valley Target stores hit with credit card security breach
News10 reports that some Target customers in California have had their card numbers breached, but it’s not clear yet if there’s any connection to Target’s massive hack disclosed last year. Central Valley Target stores have been hit with a credit card security breach, according to information contained in a search warrant affidavit filed by U.S….