The Grand Sierra Resort in Reno, Nevada, has become the latest hospitality entity to disclose a data breach involving customers’ credit card information. In this case, there appear to be two time frames during which cards used at their food and retail locations may have been compromised: for a one-month period in 2014 and again…
Category: ID Theft
Meanwhile, back at the phishing for W-2 department…
After 24 days of updating my scratch list of incidents involving phishing for W-2 information (business email compromise), I decided to take stock and try to organize what we have so far. I was surprised to see that there were already 90 incidents (make that 126 as of May 18th). Most of these entries were found…
FIN6 Group Stole Tens of Millions of Credit Card Records from PoS Systems
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Yesterday, security researchers from FireEye and iSight Partner revealed a report detailing the previously unknown mode of operation of a criminal group named FIN6. FireEye says the group surfaced in 2015 and focused only on the theft of financial information, mainly credit card data from organizations in the retail and hospitality sectors….
Two More Arrested in Fraud Scheme Involving Student Identity Information, One Still at Large
Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, with the assistance of the Orlando Police Department, today arrested two individuals for participating in a scheme to defraud the Medicaid program using teenagers’ personal identity information. Wendy Leiba of Longwood, 53, and Bobby Lyons of Winter Garden, 50, allegedly assisted Orlando-based companies to fraudulently bill Medicaid…
IRS Employees Arrested for Fraudulent Tax Returns
Two long-time IRS employees were arrested yesterday at the IRS facility in Fresno as they came to work. On April 14, 2015, a 38-count indictment was brought against Della Ornelas, 48, and Randall Ruff, 52, both of Fresno, charging them with aiding others in the preparation of false tax returns, and making their own fraudulent tax…
Data stolen from Baltimore City employees, city announces
There’s a lot we don’t know about this one yet, and it’s not clear to me whether this incident will fall into the phishing for w-2 list, but Tom Prudente reports: Someone or a group has stolen personal information from an unknown number of Baltimore City employees and filed fraudulent tax returns, the city announced…