From the read-your-policy-carefully dept., Eric Anderson reports: The operators of several Five Guys restaurants in the Capital Region won’t be able to collect damages from their insurance company after their computer network was breached in late 2011, the state Appellate Division ruled Thursday. RSVT Holdings, the restaurant operator, had sought to be reimbursed for losses…
Category: ID Theft
Data Broker Defendants Settle FTC Charges They Sold Sensitive Personal Information to Scammers
A group of defendants have settled Federal Trade Commission charges that they knowingly provided scammers with hundreds of thousands of consumers’ sensitive personal information – including Social Security and bank account numbers. The proposed federal court orders prohibit John Ayers, LeapLab and Leads Company from selling or transferring sensitive personal information about consumers to third parties. The defendants will also…
Memphis man accused of using stolen patient identity information to defraud banks of $1.6 million
Fox13 reports that Jeremy Jones of Memphis was indicated in federal court for his role in a bank fraud scheme that involved more than $1.6 million. The affidavit of complaint against Jeremy Jones said he started stealing identities of patients of Memphis Neurology back in 2011, and he used those identities to bilk various banks…
Alleged Con Man Charged with Impersonating a Psychiatrist and Prescribing Medications to Dozens of Patients in Chicago
A very disturbing identity theft case where if the charges are true, impacted medical care. CHICAGO — An alleged con man has been charged in federal court with holding himself out as a psychiatrist and fraudulently prescribing medications to a nine-year-old child and dozens of others. SCOTT C. REDMAN, 36, used the identity of an…
Bank details of 100,000 Britons for sale on Bestvalid.cc
Patrick Sawer reports: Criminals are selling the stolen credit and debit card details of 100,000 Britons on the internet in new market said to be “the largest and most brazen of its kind”. For as little as £1.67 banking details stolen from more than a million people worldwide can be bought from the website on…
NY: Phishing scheme may have resulted in tax refund fraud
There’s an update to a reported phishing attack involving Hudson City School District. John Mason and Roger Hannigan report: The phishing scam that netted the Social Security numbers of all Hudson City School District staff members has moved in a troubling new direction. Several staff members, according to District Superintendent Maria Suttmeier, have started to…