Guillermo Contreras reports: Credit-card numbers from 17,000 guests at the Emily Morgan Hotel were stolen and used in a three-state shopping spree to buy farm and ranch equipment, tires, machinery, all-terrain vehicles and other goods, federal officials say. Prosecutors unsealed indictments Thursday against five people in what officials say is the largest identify-theft case ever…
Category: ID Theft
18 arrested as credit card cloning gang broken up in Madrid
A group of 18 men and women from seven countries have been arrested in Madrid by the National Police in connection with a credit card cloning scam. […] Police say the gang had the contacts and the infrastructure to, in less than six hours, obtain the bank details of the stolen card owners and use…
AU: Online ID fraud losses explode to $1.3bn a year
Asher Moses reports: One in 10 Australian internet users have lost money to online identify fraud over the past year with losses totalling $1.286 billion, according to the VeriSign Online Fraud Barometer figures released today. The findings represent a significant increase on the figures reported in June by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, which surveyed…
IN: Card breach linked to national company
Kristin Maiorano reports: A local security breach with credit and debit cards has been linked to a national company. Lafayette Police detective B.T. Brown said the security issue affected the Camilles Sidewalk Cafe restaurants in the area. But Brown said the breach was strictly through Camilles’ parent company, Beautiful Brands International. “They [local Camilles franchises]…
Former Bank of New York Mellon computer tech pleads guilty
The Associated Press reports that Adeniyi Adeyemi, a former computer technician at Bank of New York Mellon, pleaded guilty to computer tampering and other charges. Adeyemi reportedly admitted to stealing 2,000 other employees’ identities and then using their ID’s for years to loot about $1 million from charities. Adeyemi had been indicted in October…
Miami Man Indicted for Purchasing, Selling and Using Stolen Credit Card Information
A Miami man was charged yesterday with buying, selling and using stolen credit card information. Juan Javier Cardenas was charged in a three-count indictment returned by a federal grand jury with conspiracy to traffic in unauthorized credit card numbers and to possess unauthorized credit card numbers with intent to defraud; trafficking in unauthorized credit card…