Madison, Wis. – John W. Vaudreuil, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Mark Johnson, 55, Janesville, Wis., was arrested without incident in Janesville, by agents from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, with assistance from the Janesville Police Department. Johnson will make…
Category: ID Theft
AL: Former employee arrested for taking customer’s identity
AL.com reports: A former Best Way Rent-to-Own employee was arrested for identity theft on Friday, Decatur police said. Store managers filed a theft report on April 15 after a former customer received a bill for purchased items. Danielle Ashley Mayes, 28, became a suspect during the investigation. […]
If you advertise it “100% safe and secure,” it’d better be
NY Announces $100K Settlement With E-Retailer After Data Breach Exposes Over 25K Credit Card Numbers NEW YORK – Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman announced a settlement with Provision Supply, LLC, d/b/a EZcontactsUSA.com, involving a data breach resulting in the potential exposure of over 25,000 credit card numbers and other cardholder data. EZcontactsUSA.com has agreed to…
NAIC Cybersecurity Task Force Weighs Credit Freezes
As a resource for my site visitors, I thought I’d mention an article by Josephine Cicchetti and Laura Wall on the relative merits of a credit freeze as opposed to credit monitoring if you are notified that your data has been caught up in a data breach. For a number of years now, both Brian Krebs…
Former Pharmacy Owner Sentenced to Prison for Stealing from Charity
Katie Eder has a follow-up on a case first reported in the media in January The former owner of a pharmacy in Lexington, Kentucky, has been sentenced to more than 6 years in prison for stealing $1.1 million from a charity called Chronic Disease Fund. Adam K. Sloan, 37, admitted to using personal information from customers…
Postal employee charged with theft of thousands of credit cards
And then sometimes, it’s still just low-tech old-fashioned theft: A former U.S. Postal Service employee appeared in federal court earlier this month after agreeing to plead guilty to stealing and selling thousands of credit cards from the mail, the Justice Department said. The 48-year-old California man, who had worked for USPS for more than 20…