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Lush web sites in AU and NZ also hacked

Posted on February 14, 2011 by Dissent

Last month, this blog reported that the UK site of Lush cosmetics had been hacked.  Three weeks later,  Lush customers in Australia and New Zealand are being notified by email that those Lush sites were hacked as well.  The breaches occur to be separate hacks and reportedly only affect those who placed orders online. The…

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Former L.A. County social worker pleads guilty in identity theft

Posted on February 13, 2011 by Dissent

This is a follow-up to a case previously reported on this blog but adds more details about the number of victims and crime. A former employee with the Los Angeles County Department of Social Services pleaded guilty this past week to federal charges and admitted that he filed federal tax returns in the names of…

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(update) NC: U.B.E. breach victims total continues to climb

Posted on February 13, 2011 by Dissent

Jackie Drake reports: Greenville Police are handling at least 100 complaints so far from East Carolina University students who say they lost money after their accounts were compromised in a recent security breach at the University Book Exchange. The breach is believed to have occurred between Jan. 5 and Jan. 25 and the case is…

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OK: Leader of credit-card fraud plot gets seven-year sentence

Posted on February 10, 2011 by Dissent

David Harper reports: A California man has been sentenced in Tulsa to seven years in prison for an interstate credit-card fraud conspiracy that involved more than $100,000 and victimized 18 financial institutions ranging from Merrill Lynch to the Bank of Hawaii. Jonathan Edward Vergnetti, 39, also was ordered by U.S. District Judge James Payne this…

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FL: FBI to investigate Lake Wales fraud case

Posted on February 4, 2011 by Dissent

Phil Attinger reports: Lake Wales police have turned their city bank account fraud investigation over to the FBI. Sgt. Mark Stroup, chief local investigator on the case, said the Lake Wales Police Department made the decision last week to have the Federal Bureau of Investigations take the lead in the case, in light of the…

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“S3” ring members indicted; cybercrime ring victimized hundreds

Posted on February 2, 2011 by Dissent

Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., today announced indictments of 27 individuals in connection with “S3,” a credit card forgery and identity theft ring based in Brooklyn that compromised hundreds of bank accounts, and fraudulently purchased Apple products from stores around the country to resell for profit. According to documents filed in court and…

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