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Ten Charged in $11.1 Million Tax Refund Fraud Conspiracy

Posted on November 6, 2015 by Dissent

A federal grand jury returned a 14-count indictment, unsealed yesterday, charging 10 defendants with conspiracy, theft of government funds, and aggravated identity theft. The defendants are: Ja’Baree Vazquez Allen, 26, Tallahassee, Florida; Ronald Edward Brown, 27, Quincy, Florida; Anre’ Juardon Davis, 34, St. Petersburg, Florida; Addrain Montez McMillan, 29, Overland Park, Kansas; Rashard Lavonta McMillian,…

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Investigation continues into Cardinals’ hacking of Astros system

Posted on November 6, 2015 by Dissent

Evan Drellich reports: Now that the offseason has arrived, the fall and/or winter likely will bring an update in some form from the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Texas on the criminal investigation into the Cardinals’ unauthorized access of Astros information — the hacking scandal that involved the Astros’ database named “Ground Control.”…

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MO: Business Owner Pleads Guilty After Customers’ Information is Stolen in Bank Fraud Scheme

Posted on November 6, 2015 by Dissent

Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced yesterday that a former business owner in Sparta, Mo., pleaded guilty in federal court to his role in allowing his customers’ information to be stolen and used to promote a bank fraud scheme that used stolen mail and fake identifications to cash nearly…

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Talk Talk hack: Co Antrim schoolboy suing Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail and The Sun for alleged breach of privacy

Posted on November 6, 2015 by Dissent

Remember when I expressed surprise on Twitter that The Telegraph, a UK publication, actually named this kid? Within hours, the publication silently deleted it, but there’s been so much reported online and on Twitter that his identity is pretty much out there already.  Alan Erwin reports: A Co Antrim schoolboy arrested over the cyber attack on TalkTalk…

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UK: Popular postcard app Touchnote suffers data breach

Posted on November 6, 2015 by Dissent

Dan Thorp-Lancaster reports: The team behind Touchnote, a popular Android app for sending photos you’ve taken as postcards, has sent an email out to customers announcing that the service was hit by a data breach, resulting in customer information such as name and address being accessed. Read more on Android Central.  From the FAQ on…

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In a first, the FCC is fining a major cable company for getting hacked

Posted on November 5, 2015 by Dissent

Brian Fung reports: In the first such case against a U.S. cable company, federal regulators are slapping Cox Communications with a $595,000 fine after Cox allowed hackers from Lizard Squad to penetrate its systems and steal private customer information. By posing as an IT administrator and tricking a couple of Cox employees into giving up their login credentials, a…

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