Insider breaches in restaurants is a global problem, but this may be the first report of its kind I can remember seeing from China. Ke Jiayun reports: City restaurant and entertainment venue staff are among 51 people held in connection with a nationwide forged bank card network said to have netted nearly 10 million yuan (US$1.62…
Category: ID Theft
DE: Local Car Rental Worker Steals Cutsomers’ IDs
From WILM: A rental car employee is accused of stealing customers’ identities. Karlvin Zidor is charged with stealing credit card information while working at Enterprise Rent A Car in Milford. The investigation started with Henrico County Police in Virginia, who determined an identity theft ring was getting information from someone in Delaware. Zidor is charged…
1.4 Million Taxpayers Exposed to ‘increased risk of fraud and identity theft’ by IRS
J.D. Tuccille writes: The geniuses at the Internal Revenue Service gave sensitive data on over a million taxpayers to a printing contractor wiout checking the bona fides of any of the contractor’s employees, says the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration. The news comes from a report dated last month but just released to the public. This…
Former Georgia deputy sentenced in identity theft plot
Phil W. Hudson reports: Sean Lydell Street, 39, a former Richmond County, Ga., Deputy Sheriff, was sentenced Aug. 12 to two years in prison for stealing personal identification information to be used as part of a fraudulent tax refund scheme. Street worked for the Richmond County Sheriff’s Office from 2007 through 2012 and during the…
14 Individuals Charged with Trafficking Identities of Puerto Rican U.S. Citizens
Fourteen individuals were charged in three indictments in Puerto Rico with conspiracy to commit identification fraud, money laundering, aggravated identity theft and passport fraud in connection with their alleged roles in a scheme to traffic the identities and corresponding identity documents of Puerto Rican U.S. citizens. Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice…
Seattle, Portland Archdiocese Login Credentials Found In CyberVor Hacker Database
Jeanne Price reports: Close to 6,000 identity theft victims have been documented but Catholic church officials in Seattle and Portland say they’re still stumped about how their data breaches occurred. Now a potential clue has surfaced – a disturbing link to a newly discovered Russian hacker group called CyberVor. These victims in the Pacific Northwest…