A Malaysian national wanted by Australian police over a huge card-skimming operation has been arrested at Darwin airport. The man had been implicated in a syndicate which allegedly stole money from Victorian teller machines, using data stolen from interstate bank account-holders. The man, 24, was arrested by Australian Customs Service officers at Darwin Airport on…
Category: ID Theft
County workers warned of ID theft in retirement association
Carol Ferguson reports: Thousands of local government employees and retirees have been warned after a case of identity theft turned up in the Kern County Employees’ Retirement Association. A former KCERA worker is accused of using a member’s information to access a retirement fund, and Eyewitness News has learned that worker was convicted of fraud…
Six face charges in ID theft ring
From the Monterey County Herald: Six people have been charged with using stolen identities to run up tens of thousands of dollars in fraudulent charges in the San Francisco Bay Area. The defendants were arraigned Thursday in Santa Clara County Superior Court. They did not enter pleas. The state Attorney General’s Office says the defendants…
Cedar Falls Pita Pit Customers Experience Credit Card Fraud
Claire Kellett reports: Cedar Falls police are investigating an unusually high amount of credit card fraud just in the past few days. The department says isolated cases are common, but it is receiving enough reports to consider asking the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation for help. Police say this is affecting both debit cards and…
(update) Credit card fraud reports still growing
The Stillwater case keeps growing….. and in this installment, it seems that it’s less clear how the breach occurred than previously thought. Peter Cox reports: Police have taken nearly 200 reports from people affected by credit card numbers apparently stolen from the Mad Capper Bar and Restaurant in downtown Stillwater. Investigator Kyle Sykes, who is…
Brokerage Account Hacker Gets 3 Years in Jail
A computer hacker was sentenced to 3 years and 1 month in prison yesterday for hacking into brokerage accounts at Charles Schwab and laundering more than $246,000, some of which he sent to co-conspirators in Russia. From September 2006 to December 2007, Aleksey Volynskiy used Trojan horse computer viruses to steal victims’ personal account information…