Hattiesburg, Miss – Former Mississippi Department of Public Safety employee Yolanda Jean Perkins, 48, of Laurel, Lorena Gomez, 33, of Laurel, and Jose Martel Rivera, 32, an illegal alien from Mexico, all pled guilty in federal court on August 18, 2014, to conspiracy to commit identity theft, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis and Raymond…
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NH: Former Manchester Police Officer Pleads Guilty To Federal Offense
I missed this one when it first appeared on July 29th, but it is an insider breach of note: CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE – Joseph Cespedes, 37, formerly a police officer in Manchester, New Hampshire, pleaded guilty in United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire to misprision of a felony, announced United States…
GA: Best Buy employee, boyfriend charged in identity theft ring
WSB-TV in Atlanta reports: Best Buy Corporation is apologizing to the victims of an identity theft ring that appears to have involved a Gwinnett County Best Buy employee and her boyfriend. Investigators say Adriana Orellana ran applications for iPhone and Verizon service using the names and information from victims her boyfriend had stolen the identities…
New York City Police Department Officer Pleads Guilty in Manhattan Federal Court to Fraud and Identity Theft Charges
Preet Bharara, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that JOHN L. MONTANEZ, a police officer with the New York City Police Department (“NYPD”), pleaded guilty in Manhattan federal court to credit card fraud and identity theft offenses. MONTANEZ, who was arrested late May 2014, entered his plea today before…
ME: Data breach reported at Otto pizza in Portland
J. Craig Anderson reports: A data breach at Otto in Portland may have resulted in the theft of about 900 customers’ credit card numbers from the local restaurant chain’s two Portland locations, the company said Friday. Company officials said in a news release that authorities recently notified Otto that it suffered a “point-of-sale” attack that…
Breach at USIS ‘affected’ at least 25,000 employees – DHS official
Jim Finkle has an update to the USIS hack reported earlier this month: A cyber attack at a company that performs background checks for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security compromised data of at least 25,000 government workers, an agency official told Reuters on Friday. The official said that DHS plans to notify approximately 25,000…