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Five indicted in Johns Hopkins Hospital ID theft ring

Posted on September 30, 2010 by Dissent

A federal grand jury has indicted the following five Maryland defendants on fraud and aggravated identity theft charges in connection with a scheme to use stolen hospital patient identity information to open fraudulent credit accounts and make purchases on “instant credit” at retail stores in Maryland: Michael Allen, age 34, of Baltimore, Jasmine Amber Smith,…

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(Follow-up) Credit Card Skimming Suspect Pleads Guilty

Posted on September 29, 2010 by Dissent

Following up on a case reported previously: Gabriel Camara, 36, of Washington, D.C., pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit bank fraud and aggravated identity theft. Camara and a co-conspirator, Nicole Ward, paid servers at several local restaurants to capture customers’ credit card numbers on skimmers, officials said. The stolen information was then given to others…

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Confidential files found in drug raid were ‘job applications, Victoria Police

Posted on September 28, 2010 by Dissent

Earlier today I read an article on a security breach involving the Australian Security Intelligence Organization (ASIO).  During a drug raid in Melbourne, the police had discovered intelligence and police files.  Believing that it was a security breach involving intelligence but not necessarily PII, I didn’t cover it here.  Now it turns out that the…

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(follow-up) Three black market travel agents plead guilty

Posted on September 28, 2010 by Dissent

Beth Phillips, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that three defendants have pleaded guilty to their roles in a conspiracy among black market travel agents who used the stolen identities of thousands of victims as part of a multi-million dollar fraud scheme to purchase airline tickets for their customers. Some…

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French police bust network of mobile phone hackers

Posted on September 27, 2010 by Dissent

A report by AFP provides another reminder of how costly insider breaches can be: French police have busted a network of mobile phone hackers, a fraud worth millions of euros, and arrested nine people, including employees of cellular phone companies, investigators said Sunday. Three people were still in custody Sunday following the arrests across the…

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Pointer: UK using stolen data to nail tax cheats?

Posted on September 26, 2010 by Dissent

From the end-ju$tifie$-the-mean$ dept. It looks like the UK has joined the ranks of Spain and France in using data stolen from HSBC to go after tax cheats. See the coverage on UKWired and BBC.

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