From their press release: The company behind Sparks, the app that is designed to help you connect with and meet new people nearby with whom you have shared interests, and which was first presented at SXSW in 2012, has given details of an attempted Denial of Service attack allegedly undertaken by an employee of their…
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EE: Former Police Official Found Guilty of Leaking Personal Data
Meanwhile, in Estonia: On Tuesday, Harju County Court found Alice Järvet, a former head of the analysis and planning bureau, guilty of leaking information from a police database. Järvet was fined 9,398 euros and was suspended from police work for three years, court spokeswoman Kristina Ots told uudised.err.ee. In January, the public prosecutor made a…
Steakhouse Data-Theft Leader Gets As Much as 13 1/2 Years
Just to follow-up on previously reported breaches: The leader of a ring of waiters who copied customer credit cards at New York steakhouses including Smith & Wollensky and the Capital Grille so accomplices could buy luxury goods was ordered to go to prison for as long as 13 1/2 years. Luis “Damian” Jacas, 42, oversaw…
Alabama Defendants Sentenced for Their Role in a Million Dollar Identity Theft Tax Scheme
As an update to a case I’ve been following here and on phiprivacy.net: Corey Means was sentenced yesterday to 20 months in prison and Melba Wilson to eight months home detention for their involvement in a million dollar identity theft tax scheme, the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service announced. According to court documents,…
Two City Of Miami Police Officers And One State Corrections Officer Arrested And Charged For Selling Identity Info for Tax Refund Fraud Schemes
Law enforcement in Miami has its hands full investigating tax refund fraud schemes. It doesn’t help when three law enforcement officers are involved in those schemes. Bernard Beliard, a Florida Department of Corrections officer assigned to the South Florida Reception Center, and Vital Frederick and Malinzky Bazile – two Miami Police Department officers – were arrested yesterday and charged in…
Follow-up: Former law firm employee sentenced to 13 years in prison for role in ID theft/tax refund fraud ring
Jay Weaver provides an update with additional details on a breach involving Rodney St. Fleur, an employee of a Miami law firm who misused his access to LexisNexis database searches to steal over 20,000 individuals’ information for a tax refund fraud scheme. Weaver reports that in court, St. Fleur admitted that he had stolen the…