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CO: Waitress charged with felony possession of skimmer

Posted on August 11, 2010 by Dissent

Making possession of tools a felony opens up new prosecutorial possibilities: A Greeley waitress from China, arrested last week for allegedly “skimming” customers’ credit cards, has been charged with a felony — possession of identity theft tools. Yu Lin, 22, was arrested last week and released on $5,000 bond. She was arrested after the owners…

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Pediatric cancer patients’ identities used as part of tax fraud operation

Posted on August 10, 2010 by Dissent

Joe Ryan reports that 29 year-old Steven Nelson of the Bronx pleaded not guilty in a Newark court today and remains free on bail. Nelson had been indicted by a federal grand jury in July on a tax refund scheme that not only involved ID theft, but used the identities of pediatric cancer patients to…

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‘Kryogeniks’ hacker sentenced for Comcast hacking

Posted on August 10, 2010 by Dissent

No PII involved in this one, but since many may remember the case, I thought I’d post the follow-up. James Robert Black, Jr., a.k.a. “Defiant,” was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court in Tacoma to four months in prison, four months of electronic home monitoring, 150 hours of community service, three years of supervised release…

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Four sentenced in NJ for their role in $30 million international bank fraud and ID theft ring

Posted on August 10, 2010 by Dissent

Four of 17 defendants, all of whom were convicted of conspiring to engage in an international telemarketing and identity theft scheme to defraud financial institutions and tens of thousands of account holders out of millions of dollars through the unauthorized debit of customer bank accounts (the “Telemarketing and Identity Theft Conspiracy”), were sentenced by United…

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126,000 college students and employees notified of breach

Posted on August 10, 2010 by Dissent

The College Center for Library Automation (CCLA), which provides automated library services and electronic resources to Florida’s public colleges, today began informing students, faculty, and staff of six colleges that some of their personal information was inadvertently open to online access between May 29 and June 2, 2010. A copy of the e-mail notification can…

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Tuesday’s batch of newly uncovered breaches

Posted on August 10, 2010 by Dissent

In response to my Freedom of Information request, I received a batch of 15 breach reports received in February by the Maryland Attorney General’s Office. Of the 15, five of them were news to me: M&T Bank reported that an individual walked into their Pikesville branch and while talking with a branch manager, removed another…

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