A small update to the story by Adolfo Flores of the Pasadena Star News: The Secret Service has been called in. As significantly, the police are still looking for the owner of the gas station who closed the business and left town during Christmas week – right before all of the fraud reports starting coming…
Category: ID Theft
MI: One of two suspects in Taco Bell credit card scheme pleads guilty
John Tunison reports: Onil Rivas-Perez, a man police say took part in a scheme to digitally skim credit card numbers from Taco Bell customers, has pleaded guilty to identity theft. Rivas-Perez, 36, of Byron Center, entered the plea Tuesday before Kent County Circuit Court Judge Dennis Lieber and will be sentenced Feb. 24. Police said…
Numbers on EVG Quality Gas breach continue to climb
UPI is reporting that there are now 230 reports of credit card fraud associated with EVG Quality Gas in Sierra Madre. The breach was mentioned in previous reports on this blog. Chief Marilyn Diaz of the Sierra Madre Police Department said authorities want to question the owner of EVG Quality Gas, which closed down during…
Alleged Miley Cyrus Hacker Arrested
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….
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…