I waited to post this one until I could get a copy of the indictment. 10TV reported: A former Fort Campbell inspector whose job was to investigate misconduct has been charged with stealing the identities of fellow Army personnel, including a soldier who had been killed in combat. Acting U.S. Attorney David Rivera in Nashville…
Category: ID Theft
Restaurant pledges to help victims of scam
Phil Rockrohr reports: Corporate officials of Eddie Merlot’s, whose manager was charged July 2 with stealing customers’ identities, have pledged to “rectify the issue with any affected patron.” […] On July 2, Alexander Pera, 26, of Chicago was arrested and charged with aggravated identity theft, identity theft and money laundering, police said. Pera, who had been…
Florida man sentenced in tax refund fraud case that used Tallahassee Community College students info
In an update to a breach involving student information at Tallahassee Community College, Charlton Escarmant, who was convicted in March, has been sentenced to 94 months in prison to be followed by 3 year of supervised release. A restitution hearing is scheduled for August 26, 2013. All of the press releases on this case mention that…
San Jose IT Consultant Charged With Identity Theft
Lisa Fernandez reports: A 39-year-old San Jose IT consultant has been charged with a string of Silicon Valley office burglaries that netted computer components and customer profiles and caused the networks of several businesses to shut down. After an investigation by the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s high-tech crime task force, Andrew Madrid was charged…
Wyndham Vacation Resorts reports an insider breach
As if Wyndham didn’t have enough problems from a number of breaches it experienced a few years ago, it seems that they may have had an insider breach, too. In a report to the Maryland Attorney General dated March 12, Stratis Pridgeon, Group Vice President of Legal Services for Wyndham Vacation Ownership, Inc. (which includes…
Man charged with running credit data ring containing 1.1M cardholders
Cyrus Farivar reports: The accused leader of a massive international data theft ring was charged in a New Jersey federal court on Wednesday with conspiracy to commit bank fraud. American prosecutors allege that Duy Hai Truong, 23, was the mastermind behind a scheme involving $200 million in fraudulent charges. The Vietnamese citizen was arrested in his home country late last…