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Husband and wife sentenced in tax refund fraud scheme in Florida

Posted on April 13, 2013 by Dissent

Douglas Michael Young (a/k/a “Douglas Pierre”) and Nicole Young (a/k/a “Nicole Pierre” and “Nicole Pierre Smith”) were sentenced Thursday for their participation in a stolen identity tax refund scheme.  They had  previously pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to steal government property, one count of theft of government property, and one count of aggravated identity…

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VUDU warns customers after user data stolen in burglary

Posted on April 10, 2013 by Dissent

Damon Poeter reports that streaming video provider, VUDU, has been notifying users after user data was on a hard drive stolen during an office burglary: Vudu notified users that a break-in at its offices on 24 March compromised users’ personal information and account activity, warning customers to be on the lookout for “spam email, emails…

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The “we’re just one of many” excuse doesn’t fly here

Posted on April 8, 2013 by Dissent

With all the news about #OpIsrael, it was easy to miss a breach that was reported today involving Kirkwood Community College in Iowa. On March 13, they were hacked, and the hacker had access to 125,000 records from students who had applied online for credit courses between February 2005 and March 5, 2013. The school…

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Vernon Township ordered to pay court costs after suing hapless recipients of employees’ SSN

Posted on April 5, 2013 by Dissent

Remember that ridiculous lawsuit by Vernon Township against individuals to whom it had accidentally released employees’ Social Security numbers?  There’s an update. Jessica Masulli Reyes reports: The individuals who received the Social Security numbers of 119 Vernon employees were ordered by a judge to sign certification saying that the confidential information was deleted and not disseminated….

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Court Favors Bank in Fraud Dispute; Customer Had Declined Dual Authentication

Posted on March 22, 2013 by Dissent

More on the lawsuit and countersuit between Choice Escrow and Land Title and BancorpSouth, mentioned previously on this blog. Tracy Kitten reports: A federal court has sided with a Mississippi bank in a lingering dispute with a customer over financial losses linked to an account takeover incident dating back to March 2010. That means the bank will…

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More problems for Subway: Feds charge two men in plot to sell hacked Subway gift cards worth $40,000

Posted on March 16, 2013 by Dissent

Cyrus Farivar reports that Subway, who had previous hacking problems, has had other problems: Two California men were charged in a case involving hacking point-of-sale (POS) computers at various Subway restaurants in a newly unsealed indictment on Friday in Boston. The two suspects are Shahin Abdollahi, aka “Sean Holdt,” and Jeffrey Thomas Wilkinson, both of…

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