How frustrating for everyone: St. Agnes Hospital in Baltimore learned that 40 of its physicians had become victims of ID theft. Hapless victims had their names and Social Security numbers used to create wireless telephone accounts that they knew nothing about until they started receiving overdue notices from creditors. But despite its best efforts to…
Category: U.S.
2 charged with stealing credit card info at Helena eatery
Melissa Anderson reports: Two men have been charged with several counts of deceptive practices after allegedly stealing credit card numbers from restaurant patrons. Liang Wang, 29, and Ke Xu, 25, appeared in Helena Justice Court on Wednesday on six felony counts each. An interpreter from Hong Kong translated the charges since neither of the suspects…
Hackers steal info on 200,000 Navy personnel (update 2)
Navy Times reports: The private information of more than 200,000 current and former Navy personnel was compromised in June when hackers broke into the Navy’s Smart Web Move Internet site, an application used to arrange household moves on official orders that was subsequently suspended, Naval Supply Systems Command confirmed Wednesday. The compromised database stored 11…
ID Theft Service Tied to Payday Loan Sites
Brian Krebs reports: A Web site that sells Social Security numbers, bank account information and other sensitive data on millions of Americans appears to be obtaining at least some of its records from a network of hacked or complicit payday loan sites. Usearching.info boasts the “most updated database about USA,” and offers the ability to…
Hack of Red Boat Advisor Resources server containing brokerage account applications
Lincoln Financial Securities Corporation reports that the virtual server of one of their independently-owned financial planning offices, Red Boat Advisor Resources, was accessed some time between January and early April of this year. In their letter dated August 30 to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office, LFS’s attorneys write that the server held TIFF images…
FL: Miami federal jury convicts man in murder of U.S. postal carrier in ID-theft scheme
We usually think of the financial or medical risks associated with ID theft. But murder to engage in ID theft? Jay Weaver reports: In December 2010, Bruce Parton was murdered in broad daylight while doing a job he had enjoyed for 30 years: delivering the mail. On Thursday, a federal jury found a Miami-Dade man…