In the justice system: Four Romanian men were arrested in Florida after being accused of skimming a Chase Bank ATM in Cicero, NY. They have been linked to similar schemes around the country. More. In Utah, Frank Miranda and his wife Valerie Pena were sentenced for conspiracy to commit access device fraud. Some of the…
Category: Breach Incidents
Ie: 3,000 email accounts compromised by hackers
Conall O Fátharta of Irish Examiner reports: Up to 3,000 Irish people have had their email accounts compromised by international hackers, it has emerged. The hackers managed to access the private emails of thousands of individuals whose details were then put on an Arabic website. A number of Irish banking institutions, county councils, universities, the…
ID thief posing as Black & Decker sentenced to prison
Cal Fizer, a Detroit resident who used fake 1-800 numbers to steal hundreds of credit card numbers and other personal identity information, has been sentenced to 70 months’ imprisonment on the charges of credit card fraud, mail fraud, and aggravated identity theft. The sentencing was announced (pdf) by Terrence Berg, United States Attorney for the…
AU: Security breach over SA secret files
Hendrik Gout of The Independent Weekly reports: Secret police intelligence so sensitive that people named in the documents can’t even see it appears to have been released into the public domain, prompting calls for an Anti-Corruption Branch investigation. The top-secret files may contain unproven allegations and name people who have not necessarily been convicted of…
PA: Ex-employee of Colonial Penn charged in ID-theft scam
Michael Hinkelman of the Philadelphia Daily News reports that Lisa Bryant Nelson, a former Colonial Penn Life Insurance Co. employee, was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of using company computers to steal personal and bank-account information of customers who also had accounts with Citizens Bank, M&T Bank and Wachovia Bank. Over 120…
Ca: Subway Restaurant customers become fraud victims
The Branford Expositor reports that about 1,250 debit cards were skimmed at a Subway Restaurant, over a period of about six weeks from March 25 to May 4. Over 200 of the skimmed debit cards have been used for unauthorized financial transactions.