Morgan Chalfant reports: Democratic members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee are pressing a government watchdog to further investigate whether existing credit monitoring services do enough to protect consumers affected by data breaches. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report in March on identity theft services offered by the federal government and private companies…
Category: ID Theft
GAO to agencies: Stop using Social Security numbers for everything
There really is such as a thing as “obvious.” Isn’t there? Adam Stone reports: Federal agencies continue to over-collect, over-use and over-display Social Security numbers, leading to the an unnecessarily high risk of identity theft. That’s the latest from the U.S. Government Accountability Office. In a recent report GAO declares that a decade’s worth of…
Court revives one case related to SuperValu data breach
Judy Greenwald reports: A federal appeals court has upheld dismissal of most of the plaintiffs who sued the SuperValu Inc. grocery distributor in connection with 2014 data breaches, but reinstated the case of one plaintiff who provided evidence his credit card was misused. Supermarket wholesaler and retailer SuperValu, based in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, reported two…
Former Air Force member sentenced for stealing fellow members’ information
Luke Wilusz reports: A former U.S. Air Force member was sentenced to four years in prison this week for stealing and distributing personal information from other service members. A federal jury found 28-year-old Ronnie Allen II guilty earlier this year of two counts each of of identity theft, aggravated identity theft and access device fraud,…
Nigerian charged in W-2 phishing attacks on school districts in Connecticut and Minnesota
A Nigerian man has been arrested for his alleged role in W-2 phishing attacks on school districts that resulted in tax refund fraud. On Friday, the U.S. Attorney for Connecticut issued the following press release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Patricia M. Ferrick, Special Agent in Charge of the…
FL: PBSO deputy gets 5 years in prison in ID theft case
CBS12 reports on a case I’ve been updating on this site for the past few years: A Palm Beach County Sheriff‘s deputy received five years in prison after pleading guilty in an identity theft case. In March, Deputy Frantz Felisma pleaded guilty to federal charges of aggravated identity theft and access device fraud. He admitted to…