Robert McMillan reports: The 21-year-old hacker who boasted about breaking into Miley Cyrus’ Gmail account and posting racy photographs of the teenage star has been arrested in Tennessee on fraud charges. The arrest comes more than two years after U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation agents raided Joshua Holly’s home looking for evidence in the case….
Category: ID Theft
DHS goes after Vietnamese hackers, identity thieves
Robert McMillan reports more an “Operation eMule” arrest previously reported by Dan Browning of the Star Tribune and mentioned on this site previously. […] The law enforcement operation, run out of ICE’s Cyber Crimes Center in Washington, D.C., has been investigating the Vietnamese crime ring since Sept. 2009 in an action called Operation eMule, according…
(update) CA: Fraud reports linked to Sierra Madre gas station top 175
This entry updates the incident previously noted at http://www.databreaches.net/?p=16054 Sierra Madre police officers have taken over 175 fraud reports linked to EVG Quality Gas station in recent days, officials said Monday. The first victim reported identity theft on Dec. 27 after using her credit card at the 50 S. Baldwin Avenue gas station, which has…
(update) FL: Panama City card fraud linked to Half Hitch Tackle
This entry updates a breach story previously covered at http://www.databreaches.net/?p=16029. WJHG/News7 reports: Panama City – Bay County Sheriff Frank McKeithen issued an update Monday in the investigation regarding the fraudulent use of debit and credit cards from multiple area credit unions and banks. […] Investigators have discovered that nearly all the victims have made transactions…
MN: Cyber crime trail leads to Winona State students
Dan Browning reports: A U.S. Department of Homeland Security investigation dubbed “Operation eMule” has led federal agents to a pair of 22-year-old foreign-exchange students in Winona who are suspected to be part of a sophisticated cyber crime ring based in Vietnam that has been misusing the identities of countless Americans to bilk online retailers out…
KCI notifies some patients that employee misused their payment cards
On December 21, KCI (Kinetic Concepts, Inc.) Health Care Compliance notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office of a security breach involving fraud. An employee in their Texas call center with authorized access to a database containing customers’ payment card data had reportedly misused the information of “several” customers to make purchases in the San Antonio area….