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FL: Plant City Woman Sentenced to Prison in Stolen Identity Refund Fraud Scheme

Posted on January 31, 2014 by Dissent

U.S. District Judge Susan C. Bucklew has sentenced Jennifer Meier Hunt to two years and six months in federal prison for committing stolen identity refund fraud. As part of her sentence, the court also entered a forfeiture money judgment in the amount of $97,238, representing the proceeds of the tax fraud. Hunt pleaded guilty to…

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Guatemalan National Sentenced For ID Theft; More Than 100 Illegal Aliens Used False ID In Scheme To Obtain Licenses

Posted on January 31, 2014 by Dissent

Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Guatemalan national was sentenced in federal court yesterday for aggravated identity theft in connection to a conspiracy to provide false identity documents so that more than 100 illegal immigrants could fraudulently obtain driver’s and non-driver’s licenses from the license office in…

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Analyst sees Target data breach costs topping $1 billion

Posted on January 31, 2014 by Dissent

Tom Webb reports: Two months into the Target security breach, fraud is turning up on 10 percent to 15 percent of the stolen card accounts, a security specialist says. Based on that brisk level of criminal activity, one Wall Street analyst estimates that perhaps 5 million of the 40 million stolen credit and debit cards…

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11 high school students disciplined for keylogging teachers’ computers

Posted on January 30, 2014 by Dissent

Cyrus Farivar has the update to the case of students involving in hacking  to change grades at Corona del Mar High School: A hacking scandal involving keyloggers and electronic grade-changing at a high school in Newport Beach, a well-to-do area of Southern California, has resulted in the expulsion of 11 students. TheOrange County Register reported Wednesday that six…

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URM updates breach notification

Posted on January 30, 2014 by Dissent

URM Stores has posted an update to a breach disclosed in November.  The update indicates that the attack was “similar to” attacks reported by other grocery chains and retailers.  URM was first alerted to the breach on October 31 by a bank, but its preliminary investigation did not uncover any signs of an attack. After…

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Vengeful EnerVest Operating network engineer pleads guilty to intentionally damaging computer system

Posted on January 29, 2014 by Dissent

CHARLESTON – United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that a former network engineer at Charleston-based EnerVest Operating pleaded guilty to intentionally causing damage to his employer’s computer system.  Ricky Joe Mitchell, 34, now of Mableton, GA, admitted that in June of 2012, shortly after he learned that he was going to be fired, he…

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