WFTV reports: An employee who did data processing at an Orange County timeshare rental company is accused in a criminal operation that includes trafficking in counterfeit credit cards. Brandon Bizar, CEO of Preferred Guest Resorts, got a call Thursday about Chrystie Hall’s arrest. He said she worked there several years. Police said she might have been making…
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Statement From Avid Life Media Inc. (AshleyMadison breach)
TORONTO, July 20, 2015 — We were recently made aware of an attempt by an unauthorized party to gain access to our systems. We immediately launched a thorough investigation utilizing leading forensics experts and other security professionals to determine the origin, nature, and scope of this incident. We apologize for this unprovoked and criminal intrusion…
Online Cheating Site AshleyMadison Hacked
Brian Krebs reports: Large caches of data stolen from online cheating site AshleyMadison.com have been posted online by an individual or group that claims to have completely compromised the company’s user databases, financial records and other proprietary information. The still-unfolding leak could be quite damaging to some 37 million users of the hookup service, whose slogan is…
Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt Charges Rehab Specialist for Medicaid Fraud, Identity Theft
July 17 – Attorney General Scott Pruitt on Friday filed one felony count of each Medicaid fraud and identity theft against an Oklahoma City behavioral health specialist. Timothy Nickalas Traylor, 35, of Oklahoma City, allegedly billed the Oklahoma Health Care Authority for 56 phony sessions between October 2011 and October 2013 while working for Pennington Creek Lifehouse,…
MI: Farmington Hills man accused of hospital ID theft takes plea deal; second suspect still negotiating
Matt Fahr reports that two people accused of participating in an identification theft scam involving 1,400 patients of Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital and DMC Harper Hospital in Detroit are in the process of taking plea deals. Martez Lear, 29 of Farmington Hills and Markitta Washington, 29 of Hampton, Georgia and formerly of Farmington Hills, were indicted…
Former U.S. Marine Charged with Stealing Identities of Fellow Service Personnel in Scheme to Defraud Navy Federal Credit Union of More Than $138,000
CHICAGO—A former United States Marine from Calumet City stole the identities of several fellow Marines and used their information to illegally procure more than $138,000 from Navy Federal Credit Union, according to an indictment returned this week in federal court in Chicago. While serving in Combat Logistics Regiment 3 at Camp Foster in Okinawa, Japan,…