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(follow-up) Massachusetts man pleads guilty to selling and using TSA employees’ identities

Posted on December 17, 2010 by Dissent

A Lynn man pleaded guilty in federal court today to selling and using the names, dates of birth, and Social Security numbers of Transportation Security Administration employees who worked at Logan Airport. Michael Debring, A/K/A Michael Washington, 49, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Nathaniel M. Gorton to conspiracy, misrepresenting a Social Security number with…

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Four Texans charged in ID theft scheme involving fingerprint and background security clearance applicants

Posted on December 17, 2010 by Dissent

Four Waco area women have been arrested on charges of conspiracy to commit identity theft in a scheme involving stolen Fingerprint Applicant Services of Texas (FAST) applications required by licensing and certification entities such as the Texas Education Agency. A seven count federal grand jury indictment, returned on Tuesday and unsealed yesterday afternoon, charges 32-year-old Angela Cuellar,…

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13 million deviantART e-mail addresses exposed by hackers

Posted on December 17, 2010 by Dissent

Matthew Humphries covers a Silverpop-related deviantART e-mail address hack mentioned previously on this blog: Pre-Christmas 2010 will be remembered as the time when well-known online brands and websites started to fall to hackers. The biggest of them all so far has been Gawker, and we’ve also seen McDonalds have its databases compromised this week. But…

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Fallout from Recent Spear Phishing Attacks?

Posted on December 17, 2010 by Dissent

Brian Krebs writes: McDonald’s and Walgreens this week revealed that data breaches at partner marketing firms had exposed customer information. There has been a great deal of media coverage treating these and other similar cases as isolated incidents, but all signs indicate they are directly tied to a spate of “spear phishing” attacks against e-mail marketing…

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(follow-up, TX): Man pleads guilty in Emily Morgan Hotel ID theft case

Posted on December 16, 2010 by Dissent

Guillermo Contreras reports: One of the main figures in San Antonio’s largest identity theft case pleaded guilty Thursday. Samuel Micha Dyer entered guilty pleas to conspiracy to commit ID theft fraud, access device fraud and aggravated identity theft. Dyer, 28, admitted being part of a ring that stole and used 17,000 credit card receipts and registration documents from…

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FL: Store clerk accused of double-swiping credit card numbers

Posted on December 16, 2010 by Dissent

A convenience store employee will be arraigned Friday on several federal charges after allegedly stealing credit card numbers in a counterfeit operation, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said. Ihap Abdallah “Tommy” Yamin, 31, of Okeechobee was indicted on federal conspiracy, wire fraud, credit card fraud and aggravated identity theft charges. He could face 30 years in…

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