Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Guatemalan national was sentenced in federal court yesterday for aggravated identity theft in connection to a conspiracy to provide false identity documents so that more than 100 illegal immigrants could fraudulently obtain driver’s and non-driver’s licenses from the license office in…
Category: ID Theft
NC: Three Charged With Operating Online Counterfeit Credit Card Retailer Responsible For Estimated $34.5 In Fraud
Three men who allegedly ran a one-stop online shop selling counterfeit credit cards and holographic overlays, to be used by criminals to make fake identifications, face federal charges in an ongoing investigation that has already resulted in 11 additional arrests, including a customer facing federal charges. U.S. Attorney Anne M. Tompkins for the Western District…
Northern Kentucky IRS Financial Technician Sentenced To 28 Months For Stealing Identities And Committing Mail Fraud
A financial technician, employed in an office of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) located in Boone County, Ky., was sentenced to 28 months in federal prison for unlawfully accessing an IRS computer to obtain personal information about taxpayers. U.S. District Judge Amul Thapar sentenced 33-year-old Joy Fox of Independence, Ky., on Thursday for aiding and…
Target Hackers Used Stolen Vendor Credentials
Danny Yadron, Paul Ziobro and Charles Levinson report: The hackers who stole 40 million credit- and debit-card numbers from Target Corp. appear to have breached the discounter’s systems by using credentials stolen from a vendor. The finding will help to start unraveling the riddle of how the software that carried out the attack got into Target’s systems….
Bike Waiter warns customers of security breach
Neal Morton reports: The credit card information of some of the Bike Waiter‘s customers may have been exposed as the result of a privacy breach, the meal delivery service said Tuesday in an email to customers. Shane Broussard, president of Bike Waiter LLC, did not disclose exactly how many customers might be affected, but in…
FL: Last of five pleads guilty in medical ID theft tax fraud, but questions about the breach remain
Wayne K. Routon reports: The last of five people accused of tax refund fraud involving identity theft from medical records pleaded guilty Friday for his role in the scheme, U.S. Attorney Wifredo A. Ferrer said. Michael Ali Bryant, Sr., 41, of Lauderdale Lakes, faces up to 12 years in prison at his sentencing scheduled in…