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Alleged Miley Cyrus Hacker Arrested

Posted on January 5, 2011 by Dissent

Robert McMillan reports: The 21-year-old hacker who boasted about breaking into Miley Cyrus’ Gmail account and posting racy photographs of the teenage star has been arrested in Tennessee on fraud charges. The arrest comes more than two years after U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation agents raided Joshua Holly’s home looking for evidence in the case….

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(update) NYC SSA breach involved more than SSN

Posted on January 4, 2011 by Dissent

As an update to the breach involving a subcontractor working in the NYC  Social Security Administration Office of Temporary Disability Assistance, other news sources such as WTEN report the name of the individual arrested in the case: Evan Kane of Waterford, New York. It also appears that in addition to 15,000 Social Security Numbers, other…

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DHS goes after Vietnamese hackers, identity thieves

Posted on January 4, 2011 by Dissent

Robert McMillan reports more an “Operation eMule” arrest previously reported by Dan Browning of the Star Tribune and mentioned on this site previously. […] The law enforcement operation, run out of ICE’s Cyber Crimes Center in Washington, D.C., has been investigating the Vietnamese crime ring since Sept. 2009 in an action called Operation eMule, according…

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TX: Personnel records found dumped outside Plano library

Posted on January 4, 2011 by Dissent

Brad Watson reports about dozens of boxes containing sensitive information: “I picked up a notebook that was sitting on top, I flipped it over and saw pages and pages of Social Security numbers,” she said. “I got concerned.” Inside the cartons, News 8 reviewed hundreds of names, Social Security numbers, medical records, home addresses and…

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(update) CA: Fraud reports linked to Sierra Madre gas station top 175

Posted on January 3, 2011 by Dissent

This entry updates the incident previously noted at http://www.databreaches.net/?p=16054 Sierra Madre police officers have taken over 175 fraud reports linked to EVG Quality Gas station in recent days, officials said Monday. The first victim reported identity theft on Dec. 27 after using her credit card at the 50 S. Baldwin Avenue gas station, which has…

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(update) FL: Panama City card fraud linked to Half Hitch Tackle

Posted on January 3, 2011 by Dissent

This entry updates a breach story previously covered at http://www.databreaches.net/?p=16029. WJHG/News7 reports: Panama City – Bay County Sheriff Frank McKeithen issued an update Monday in the investigation regarding the fraudulent use of debit and credit cards from multiple area credit unions and banks. […] Investigators have discovered that nearly all the victims have made transactions…

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