Morgan Tanabe reports: A hospital employee is behind bars for allegedly buying multiple items from a store online with credit cards that he stole from patients. The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office recently charged Filip Chudziak of Surprise with fraudulent scheme, fraudulent credit card and identify theft. […] Chudziak, a current Banner Boswell Hospital employee, was…
Category: ID Theft
Busted By U.S. Secret Service Agents, Little Saigon ID Thief Gets Punished
R. Scott Moxley reports: A brazen Orange County identity theft ring that stole more than $400,000 from two Vons grocery stores in 2015 before a U.S. Secret Service investigation resulted this week in a 75-month federal prison punishment for one of the conspirators. U.S. District Court Judge David O. Carter allowed both federal prosecutors and 26-year-old…
Bahamian man gets five years in U.S. prison for hacking celebrities
Nate Raymond reports: A Bahamian man was sentenced to five years in U.S. prison on Tuesday for hacking into celebrities’ email accounts to steal unreleased film and television scripts, personal information and sexually explicit videos in order to sell them. Alonzo Knowles, who maintained a list of 130 celebrities’ emails and phone numbers, was sentenced…
Tampa General Hospital settles lawsuit over insider breach for ID theft scheme
For years, Florida has stayed in the headlines because of insider breaches related to identity theft. Not often do you see a lawsuit that prevails or settles, but here’s one where there’s been a settlement. The case is John Doe v. Florida Health Sciences Center Inc. d/b/a Tampa General Hospital, Case No. 14-CA-012657, in the Circuit Court…
In Break From Usual, Threat Actors Use RAT To Steal POS Data
Jai Vijayan reports: Memory-scraping tools that surreptitiously copy and export data from running processes have pretty much been the only malware that threat actors have used in recent years to steal credit and debit card data from Point-of-Sale (POS) systems. But that doesn’t mean that other options don’t exist. Security vendor SecureWorks this week said…
AlphaBay vendor, IcyEagle, sentenced to four years and two months imprisonment
There’s a follow-up to a case previously noted on this site. From the USAO, Northern District of Georgia: Aaron James Glende a.k.a. IcyEagle has been sentenced to four years and two months’ imprisonment for access device fraud and aggravated identity theft. Glende sold stolen personally identifying information and login credentials on AlphaBay Market, a website…