CUMIS Insurance Society and the credit unions it insures have failed in their lawsuit against BJ’s Wholesale Club and Fifth Third Bank over a 2004 breach that affected 9.2 million cardholders. The background of the case, as summarized in the court opinion: In February, 2004, Visa and MasterCard determined that computer thieves had gained access…
Category: ID Theft
NY: ID theft gang steals $200,000 in casino cash advances
Dan Herbeck reports: Seven members of an alleged identity theft gang were arraigned in federal court today. The defendants are accused of using information stolen from victims’ credit and bank cards, and then using that information to make their own fake credit cards. They then used the bogus credit cards to withdraw $198,700 from the…
P2P fraudsters snare DoD employees and FL business; two indicted
Jeffrey Steven Girandola and Kajohn Phommavong have been charged in a previously sealed 16-count indictment with Conspiracy, Computer Fraud, Access Device Fraud and Aggravated Identity Theft. According to the indictment, which was handed up by a federal grand jury in San Diego, the defendants installed peer-to-peer file sharing software on computers under their control and…
Gonzalez to plead guilty in NJ
Joe Ryan of the The Star-Ledger in New Jersey breaks the news: An admitted computer hacker charged in the nation’s largest-ever data breach has told federal prosecutors in New Jersey that he plans to plead guilty in connection to the alleged theft of more than 130 million credit card numbers. Albert Gonzalez, 28, was charged…
CA man pleads guilty to Medicare scam, aggravated ID theft
The owner of Beltline Medical Supplies, Inc., formerly in Dallas, Texas, pleaded guilty last week to charges of aggravated identity theft. According to plea documents filed in the case, Rafayel Movsesyan, 38, a resident of Los Angeles, California, opened Beltline Medical Supplies, Inc. in Dallas in 2007 and submitted more than $1,028,000 in false claims…
NY: Romanian gets prison for Citizens Bank ATM fraud
Tiberiu Szebeni, 30, of Romania, who was convicted of bank fraud on Aug. 7, 2009, was sentenced to 27 months in prison and 5 years supervised release by Chief U.S. District Court Judge Richard J. Arcara, U.S. Attorney Kathleen M. Mehltretter of the Western District of New York announced on November 12. The defendant was…