Brian Krebs reports: Financial institutions across the country report that they are tracking what appears to be a series of credit card breaches involving Goodwill locations nationwide. For its part, Goodwill Industries International Inc. says it is working with federal authorities on an investigation into these reports. […] In a statement sent to KrebsOnSecurity, Goodwill industries said it first learned about a…
Category: ID Theft
Ex-Wheaton worker gets 7 years in identity theft case
Sarah Maslin reports: Janice M. Nieman stole the identities of more people than could fit in Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Glenn Yamahiro’s courtroom on Friday. The total: 848, the largest number of victims in a single defendant case in Milwaukee County history. For embezzling more than $1 million from Wheaton Franciscan Services, a not-for-profit health…
Oakland School Employees Are ID Theft Victims after Records Were Left in Abandoned HQ
More details on this breach: The Oakland Unified School District abandoned its dilapidated headquarters in January 2013 after a janitor left a faucet on overnight and flooded the building. Educators departed and the homeless moved in, but no one bothered to remove or secure records that were scattered throughout the building. The folly of that…
Miami-Dade Resident Pleads Guilty In Stolen Identity Tax Fraud Scheme
Karla A. Wilkerson, 26, of Miami, pled guilty yesterday to one count of possession of fifteen or more access devices, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1029(a)(3), and one count of aggravated identity theft, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1028A. Sentencing is scheduled for October 10, 2014. At…
FL: Dothan woman convicted of identity theft charges
Matt Elofson reports: A jury convicted a Dothan woman Wednesday afternoon of seven felony charges in connection to a conspiracy to defraud the government through identity theft and the filing of false tax returns. […] According to evidence from the trial, Macena provided stolen identities to Ivory Bolen, also of Dothan, who used the identities…
NYPD finds mother lode of ID theft evidence — along with a gun and drugs — in man’s New Springville apartment, cops say
John Annese reports: A scam investigation at the borough’s Target stores led police to find a gun, ammo and a sophisticated set of credit card-forging equipment inside a suspect’s New Springville apartment, authorities allege. Police found the items inside the home of Sung Lee, 32, on the 400 block of Klondike Avenue, according to court…