Tyler Hayden reports: A pair of habitual offenders behind one of the biggest data breaches in Santa Barbara County history pleaded guilty last week to multiple felony counts that will send them to prison for a combined 33 years. San Diego residents Gordon Welterlen, 37, and Nicole Milan, 31, admitted to hacking a computer network…
Category: ID Theft
IRS Agent Charged with Identity Theft and Wire Fraud
A 10-count indictment was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging Bryan Cho, also known as “Yong Hee Cho,” with possession of a fake foreign passport; aggravated identity theft; making false statements during a background check and wire fraud in connection with the purchase of an Upper East Side co-op apartment. Cho was arrested this…
Convicted Hacker Charged with Fraud and Identity Theft Committed While Incarcerated in Federal Prison
There’s an update to the case involving Ardit Ferizi, whose criminal history and conviction for hacking and providing material support to a terrorist organization have been covered previously. Just last month, Ferizi had been sentenced to 20 years in prison, but was granted a reduction to time served plus 10 years supervised release, to be…
In 2020, COVID-19 also impacted the carding market
It’s always nice when trends make sense. And it’s even nicer when professionals watch and analyze those trends for us. In a report released this morning, Gemini Advisory looked at the carding market in 2020 and how the pandemic does correlate with a significantly decreased demand for Card Present (CP) data on the dark web…
Former Elgin Mental Health Center Employee Charged With Identity Theft
CBS Chicago reports: Illinois State Police announced Wednesday that they have arrested a former Elgin Mental Health Center employee on identity theft charges. Kayla Brown, 25, of Country Club Hills, has been charged with a total of four felony counts of identity theft. She is an employee of the Illinois Department of Human Services, which…
Owner and Operator of India-Based Call Centers Sentenced To Prison for Scamming U.S. Victims Out Of Millions of Dollars
An Indian national was sentenced on November 30, 2020 to 20 years in prison followed by three years of supervised release in the Southern District of Texas for his role in operating and funding India-based call centers that defrauded U.S. victims out of millions of dollars between 2013 and 2016. Hitesh Madhubhai Patel, aka Hitesh…