Stephen Grey reports: The anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks began publishing on Monday more than five million emails from a U.S.-based global security analysis company that has been likened to a shadow CIA. The emails, snatched by hackers, could unmask sensitive sources and throw light on the murky world of intelligence-gathering by the company known as Stratfor,…
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Defense challenges restitution amount in fraud case
Dave Kolpack of Associated Press reports that a Nigerian convicted in a massive ID theft and fraud scheme is challenging the amount of restitution the court had ordered: Attorneys for a Canadian man convicted in what investigators said was one of the largest credit card schemes in U.S. history tediously denied Wednesday that he owes…
AL: Wallace Community College hacked
The Virtual SEPO blog reports that Wallace Community College in Alabama was hacked. Included in the data dump/proof of hack were 8 usernames, e-mail addresses, and passwords and a second table with 276 usernames, passwords, and full names. The passwords appear to be MD5 and were easily cracked using an online tool. The college was…
OR: Ex-Burger King worker accused of stealing credit card, bank info
Police say they have identified nearly 30 people who had their credit card information stolen by a former fast food employee. Andrey Mudryak was arraigned in Multnomah County court Wednesday morning after he was arrested on an outstanding warrant. Gresham police say Mudryak used to work the overnight shift at a Burger King on Southeast…
LA: Ouachita Parish Sheriff Royce Toney arrested and must take leave
More on that case out of Ouachita Parish first reported in October 2011. Ouachita Parish Sheriff Royce Toney must take a leave of absence from his position following his arrest Friday by federal officials. Toney was arrested around 10 a.m. at his Courthouse Annex office without incident following an investigation by the federal officials that…
WI: more Weather Shield tax fraud cases are expected
Since April 2011, I’ve been noting reports of ID theft involving employees of Weather Shield in Wisconsin. Now more cases are being reported this month. A still unknown number of Weather Shield employees at the Ladysmith plant – seven on one day alone last week – have reported cases of federal fraud and identity theft…