Cary Spivak and Lucas Daprile report: A computer owned by Daniel Placek — a suburban Milwaukee man who helped create an international malware marketplace — contained 74,190 credit card numbers and 297 bank account numbers when it was seized during an FBI raid in 2010, documents filed in federal court Friday state. The information is contained in…
Category: ID Theft
NY: Restaurant server accused of stealing customers’ credit card info
WNYT reports: A restaurant server is accused of stealing the credit card numbers of customers, then using it to buy things for herself. Molly Dutrow, 20, now faces forgery and identity theft charges. All of the alleged thefts happened during the first two weeks of July. Police say Dutrow was working at Lillian’s Restaurant in…
CA: Pharmacy Technician Suspended for Patient Data Theft
Pharmacy Times has more on the case of a pharmacy technician at a San Diego CVS store who was accused of stealing patient data for identity theft. It appears that CVS had no knowledge of the data theft until they were contacted by the Secret Service, who had raided her apartment: During an interview with CVS…
Ca: Toronto man arrested following identity theft investigation
CityNews reports: After a two-month investigation, Halton police have charged a 48-year-old Toronto man with making identity information available for a fraudulent purpose. Moussa Kante, a former employee of GM Financial, was allegedly providing customers’ identity information to counterfeiters. Read more on CityNews.
PA: Married Montco Business Owners Steal $124K by Using Personal Information From Victims: Police
David Chang reports: Police are searching for a Montgomery County couple who they say swindled tens of thousands of dollars from unsuspecting victims, using their names and social security numbers. Eric Martin, 33, and his wife and business partner, 29-year-old Portia Martin, are accused of creating credit accounts by using stolen identity information and making…
Darkode back online: Hacker forum moves to dark web weeks after global arrests
Shades of whack-a-mole. David Gilbert reports: Darkode, the black market where hackers buy and sell malware, is back less than two weeks after it was seized by the FBI and taken offline. On 14 July, a joint operation by the FBI, Europol, the US Department of Justice and the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA), as well…