KTTN reports: A Missouri man pleaded guilty in federal court to his role in a fraud scheme that utilized the stolen identities of Johnson County, Kansas, government employees to make fraudulent purchases. Michael B. Becher, 40, of Raytown, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Howard F. Sachs to participating in a conspiracy to commit credit…
Category: ID Theft
How criminals got away with hacking Pennsylvania unemployment accounts
Angie Moreschi reports: Paula Soffa is just one of the thousands of Pennsylvanians whose unemployment insurance account was hacked over the past year— not once, but twice. “They changed my password, they changed my username, and they changed my security questions,” Paula told 11 Investigates Angie Moreschi. “I was like what the heck! I was…
Cybercriminal Sentenced To Federal Prison For Decrypting The Credentials Of Thousands Of Computers Across The World And Selling Them On A Dark Web Website
There is an update to the case against Glib Oleksandr Ivanov-Tolpintsev, a Ukrainian who was extradited here in September, 2021 after being arrested in Poland in October, 2020: Tampa, Florida – U.S. District Judge Steven D. Merryday today sentenced Glib Oleksandr Ivanov-Tolpintsev (28, Chernivtsi, Ukraine) to four years in federal prison for conspiring to traffic…
TN: Humphreys County sheriffs arrest two for forgery, identity theft, outstanding felony warrants
Darby McCarthy reports: Early Saturday morning, Humphreys County Sheriff’s Office Patrol Team B Nights arrested Letia Leco of Camden and Richard Flowers of Jackson on charges of forgery, identity theft and outstanding felony warrants from multiple jurisdictions. Leco and Flowers were found at a hotel in Buffalo with several hundred forged commercial bank checks, over…
Former Maryland inmate sentenced to 5 years for credit card fraud involving Bitcoin, dark web
If you’re already in jail or prison, is the threat of more jail or prison even a deterrent? It didn’t seem to be in this case. ABC News reports: Abraham Oliver, 26, a former inmate in the Montgomery County Department of Corrections, was sentenced to 61 months in federal prison, followed by three years of…
Pentester for FIN7 sentenced for scheme that compromised tens of millions of debit and credit cards
Seattle – A Ukrainian man was sentenced today in the Western District of Washington to 5 years in prison for his criminal work in the hacking group FIN7. Denys Iarmak, 32, served as a high-level hacker, whom the group referred to as a “pen tester,” for FIN7. He was arrested in Bangkok, Thailand in November…