Four of 17 defendants, all of whom were convicted of conspiring to engage in an international telemarketing and identity theft scheme to defraud financial institutions and tens of thousands of account holders out of millions of dollars through the unauthorized debit of customer bank accounts (the “Telemarketing and Identity Theft Conspiracy”), were sentenced by United…
Category: ID Theft
WI: Former jailer to be sentenced in credit card theft case
From the I-didn’t-even-come-close-to-getting-away-with-it dept: A former jailer will soon find out whether she will spend some time behind bars. Michelle Arellano was charged in Chippewa County with stealing a credit card, belonging to an inmate, then racking up $2,400 in charges. […] Monday, Arellano pled no contest to a felony charge of identity theft to…
Maryland reports reveal yet more breaches
Thanks to the Maryland Attorney General’s Office, I just received copies of the 22 breach reports they received in January of this year. They’ll be sending me the rest of the reports received this year in the very near future. Looking through what they sent me, I see that we knew about the majority of…
CA: Man who misused Puerto Ricans’ IDs for tax fraud sentenced
A Downey man who was part of a scheme that fraudulently sought more than $5 million in tax refunds from the Internal Revenue Service by filing federal tax returns in the names of residents of Puerto Rico has been sentenced to 57 months in federal prison. Luis Rodriguez Ortega, 35, who used the name “Miguel…
TX: Hundreds report stolen card info
Donna Fielder reports: Hackers stole credit card and debit card information from at least 200 Sanger area residents, and fraudulent charges are now popping up all over the United States, police say. Sanger police Detective Jonathan Perkins said Tuesday that a server that provided information to processors for credit cards was compromised at a Sanger…
Maine breach reports obtained by DataBreaches.net
To follow up on my curiosity about what kind of year 2010 is turning out to be, I decided to use a primary source. Thanks to the cooperation of officials in Maine who responded promptly to my requests under Freedom of Information, I was able to obtain data on all breaches reported to them for…