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Vietnamese national charged; allegedly acquired or sold PII on 500,000 people in carder forums

Posted on October 19, 2013 by Dissent

A Vietnamese national has been indicted in the District of New Hampshire for allegedly participating in an international scheme to steal and sell hundreds of thousands of Americans’ personally identifiable information through various underground websites that he operated. Hieu Minh Ngo, 24, a Vietnamese national, was charged in a 15-count indictment filed under seal in…

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Statistic of the Day?

Posted on October 15, 2013 by Dissent

More than half of all Koreans have become victims of identity theft since September 2011, when laws were tightened to prevent the practice. According to a report submitted to Saenuri Party lawmaker Kim Young-joo by the Ministry of Security and Public Administration, 29.26 million people reported being victims of identity theft every year since 2011….

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That was quick…

Posted on October 3, 2013 by Dissent

The Miami Herald reports that it took a federal jury less than one hour to convict a former Miami police officer who misused the D.A.V.I.D. driver’s license database to obtain identity information for a tax refund fraud scheme.  Malinsky Bazile had been arrested in March.

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Receptionist at Institute of Allied Medical Professionals charged with stealing, misusing students’ personal info

Posted on September 27, 2013 by Dissent

John Nickerson reports that Bianca Torres of Bridgeport has been charged with stealing personal information of students at at the Institute of Allied Medical Professionals. Torres was employed  as a receptionist at the institute for six weeks. Police began investigating after one of the victims did her own investigating and tracked some fraudulent charges on her credit…

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Alabama state employee sentenced for stealing info from state database for tax refund fraud scheme (updated)

Posted on September 23, 2013 by Dissent

An update to a case reported previously on this blog: Lea Tice Phillips, who had been employed by an unnamed Alabama state agency, was sentenced to 94 months in prison and ordered to pay restitution of $567,631 for her role in a tax refund fraud scheme. Phillips had pleaded guilty in May. Aha. Finally we know…

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Fraudulent signatures discovered on Lifeline phone applications – Scripps News investigation

Posted on September 16, 2013 by Dissent

Scripps News Service is not backing off on their reporting of breaches involving TerraCom and YourTel America, even though TerraCom did not respond well to their previous coverage. In a press release issued today, Scripps reports that it has uncovered people across the country whose signatures appeared on applications with TerraCom and YourTel for phones…

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