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Category: ID Theft

Arkansas State U. faculty victims of tax refund fraud, but source of breach still unknown

Posted on March 11, 2013 by Dissent

One month after it became aware that some faculty members had become victims of tax refund fraud, Arkansas State University still hasn’t figured out whether the breach was of their system or a third-party vendor’s.  By now, 150 employees have reported problems.  KAIT8 has the story.

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Alabama Defendants Sentenced for Their Role in a Million Dollar Identity Theft Tax Scheme

Posted on March 8, 2013 by Dissent

As an update to a case I’ve been following here and on phiprivacy.net: Corey Means was sentenced yesterday to 20 months in prison and Melba Wilson to eight months home detention for their involvement in a million dollar identity theft tax scheme, the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service announced. According to court documents,…

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Two City Of Miami Police Officers And One State Corrections Officer Arrested And Charged For Selling Identity Info for Tax Refund Fraud Schemes

Posted on March 8, 2013 by Dissent

Law enforcement in Miami has its hands full investigating tax refund fraud schemes. It doesn’t help when three law enforcement officers are involved in those schemes. Bernard Beliard, a Florida Department of Corrections  officer assigned to the South Florida Reception Center,  and Vital Frederick and Malinzky Bazile –  two Miami Police Department officers – were arrested yesterday and charged in…

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Follow-up: Former law firm employee sentenced to 13 years in prison for role in ID theft/tax refund fraud ring

Posted on February 22, 2013 by Dissent

Jay Weaver provides an update with additional details on a breach involving Rodney St. Fleur, an employee of a Miami law firm who misused his access to LexisNexis database searches to steal over 20,000 individuals’ information for a tax refund fraud scheme. Weaver reports that in court, St. Fleur admitted that he had stolen the…

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Korean Court Orders SK Communications to Pay Damages to ID Theft Victims

Posted on February 18, 2013 by Dissent

The 2011 hack affecting SK Communications, operator of Nate and Cyworld, currently stands as 10th on DataLossDB’s list of largest all-time breaches, affecting 35 million people. The breach not only resulted in lawsuits, but contributed to the government reversing its plans to implement a real-name registration policy. In the latest development,  a Seoul court has…

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CO: FBI asked to aid probe of Iron Horse breach (updated)

Posted on February 16, 2013 by Dissent

Shane Benjamin reports: The Durango Police Department has requested the FBI’s help to investigate widespread credit card fraud that targeted numerous people registered for this year’s Iron Horse Bicycle Classic. Meanwhile, race officials worked Friday to identify the source of the security breach, said Gaige Sippy, director of the event. “We are still trying to…

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