… but not to worry, it was just a skid. Alyssa Betts reports: A young Victorian man who hacked the Northern Territory’s Country Liberals website and stole the credit card details of 76 party members inadvertently stoked fears of attacks by international hacktivists and jihadists. Aaron Warren Camm pleaded guilty in the Bendigo Magistrates Court…
Category: ID Theft
NZ: Teen hacks up to $260,000
Police estimate a Gisborne teenager’s internet banking fraud could now have a tally as high as $260,000. Jake Kyle Hall, 19, yesterday pleaded guilty in Gisborne District Court to about 95 more fraud charges. He had already pleaded guilty last December to about 80 charges, with a total of his unlawful takings estimated at that time…
Intermedix data breach class action case dismissed
Linn Foster Freedman has an update to the Intermedix data breach litigation filed last year: On May 3, 2016, the parties to the suit agreed to dismiss the case with prejudice with no payment of attorneys’ fees, costs or other expenses to the other party, which means that each party is to bear its own costs….
Double whammy: Avention investigating two data breaches involving employee info
Massachusetts-based Avention, formerly known as OneSource Solutions, is investigating two recent data breaches that may, or may not, be the work of the same criminal(s). In a letter to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office, their external counsel provides a chronology of events, beginning with reports by some employees on April 19 that their tax returns had been rejected because…
GA: Former IRS Revenue Agent Pleads Guilty to Aggravated Identity Theft of Taxpayer Information
Creshika C. Wise, a former Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Revenue Agent who impersonated a taxpayer in order to steal over $470,000, has pleaded guilty to a charge of aggravated identity theft. According to U.S. Attorney John Horn, the charges and other information presented in court: Creshika Wise worked for the IRS from 2008 until the…
KY: Business Owner Pleads Guilty To Wire Fraud For Stealing $809,205.43 From Victims
Did no one check their bank statements to see that they were having deductions made that they hadn’t approved? Or did they? Mark Allen Hartley, the owner of Patriot Computers, a Virginia corporation, entered pleas of guilty today, in United States District Court, before Chief Judge Joseph H. McKinley Jr., to multiple wire fraud charges…