The Westchester County District Attorney’s office announced that a nine count indictment was handed up charging Razvan Apostol, 31, a citizen of Romania staying in Queens, New York, with eight counts of Criminal Possession of a Forged Instrument, and one count of Unlawful Possession of a Skimmer Device. On August 17, 2010, in the Town…
Category: Breach Incidents
FL: Feds say Clay man took IRS for millions after state computers tapped
Paul Pinkham reports: Personal identities gleaned from two state agencies dealing with children were used to obtain $2.7 million in fraudulent income tax returns in a conspiracy masterminded by an Orange Park man, a federal agent testified. Bryan A. Copeland and a half-dozen co-conspirators filed 880 bogus tax returns from 2006 to 2009 using counterfeit…
Follow-up: Lawsuit filed over horrific student records breach
Kathianne Boniello reports that a parent and her child are suing the New York City Department of Education after the child’s high school dumped hundreds of unshredded confidential student records onto the street last year. The incident was covered on this site here. The School for the Physical City filled a Dumpster with 15 cardboard…
NY: Westchester Police Arrest Bronx Man For Credit Card Fraud
Westchester County Police along with the U.S. Secret Service have arrested a Bronx man and charged him with stealing credit card information and then using it to buy more than $100,000 worth of consumer electronics. Officials say 31 year old James Davis of Decatur Avenue used a skimming device to steal credit card information while…
UK: Fraudster must pay £30,000
Polly Rippon reports: A conman from Sheffield who masterminded conspiracies to defraud high street bank customers out of hundreds of thousands of pounds has been ordered to pay back nearly £30,000 to the authorities. Lawrence Siaw, aged 36, recruited bank workers to steal customers’ account details, then used them to plunder huge sums from their…
CA: Corona-Norco school district confronts security breach
Dayna Straehley reports: The Corona-Norco school district inadvertently published the Social Security numbers of more than 80 teachers and administrators on the Internet, a security breach discovered by an information privacy watchdog. Aaron Titus, information privacy director for the Liberty Coalition in Washington, D.C., said he found the list using a Google search as part…