Eric Blaisdell reports: The head of the state’s chapter of the American Institute of Architects says around 40 Vermont architects just discovered they were all the victims of identity theft. Read more on Times Argus. Keep in mind that the AIA is a professional association, not the state licensing board, and the national AIA application…
Category: ID Theft
Court Ventures/U.S. Info Search/Experian breach tied to more cases of ID theft
Trot on over to KrebsOnSecurity.com, where Brian’s connecting the dots between a number of criminal prosecutions and Ngo, the Vietnamese national who posed as a Singapore investigator to get a Court Ventures account that gave him access to reports in U.S. Info Search’s database. Experian subsequently acquired Court Ventures, and Ngo’s account was allowed to continue…
Former Fort Campbell assistant IG pleads guilty to ID theft, bank fraud
Tavia D. Green reports: A Fort Campbell active duty officer entered a guilty plea to stealing the identity of other soldiers, applying for loans and using the money for his personal benefit. James Robert Jones, 43, of Woodlawn, Tennessee pleaded guilty Tuesday in U.S. District Court Judge Aleta A. Trauger‘s court in connection with a scheme…
Ultimate Software dropped from federal lawsuit against UPMC
Not surprisingly in light of their statement that UPMC wasn’t even a client of theirs, the UPMC employee who has sued UPMC over a data breach affecting 27,000 employees has now dropped Ultimate Software from her lawsuit.
FL: Hollywood Man Pleads Guilty In Million Dollar Identity Theft Tax Refund Fraud
Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Jose A. Gonzalez, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), announce that Judes Celestin, 36, of Hollywood, pled guilty for his role in an identity theft tax refund scheme that resulted in the receipt of approximately $1 million in…
Florida firm denies link to UPMC data breach
Associated Press reports: A University of Pittsburgh Medical Center employee has sued the hospital network for credit restoration services and identity theft insurance in the wake of a data breach that has seen hackers use the personal information of hundreds of employees to file bogus federal income tax returns. Alice Patrick, who works at UPMC…