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Texas man sentenced to prison for ID theft and credit card fraud

Posted on May 6, 2010 by Dissent

Robert C. Flowers, 31, of Katy, Texas, has been sentenced by United States District Judge Nancy Atlas to serve more than five years in the federal penitentiary without parole for aggravated identity theft and credit card fraud, United States Attorney José Angel Moreno announced today. Judge Atlas sentenced Flowers to a total of 61 months…

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Pointer: ABC investigation on paper records disposal in Florida

Posted on May 5, 2010 by Dissent

ABC has had a two-part investigation on businesses and medical offices in Florida that are just dumping records with sensitive financial and health information. It seems that although there are applicable federal laws, Florida has no state law requiring proper disposal of paper records. The series names a few of the local businesses and the…

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Russian hacker ‘Kirllos’ not in NZ

Posted on May 5, 2010 by Dissent

A Russian Facebook hacker is not based in New Zealand, say New Zealand police following a two-week investigation. Reports that the hacker known as Kirllos was living in New Zealand and attempting to sell the login details of social network website users were wrong and the hacker had no link to New Zealand, Detective Senior…

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Stolen Millennium Medical Management Resources drive contained PII and PHI on 180,111

Posted on May 4, 2010 by Dissent

Health records belonging to patients were stolen in a break-in at a suburban medical billing company. Patients are now being notified about the security breech (sic). Police tell ABC7 the records were on a portable hard drive and stolen from the Westmont office of Millennium Medical Management Resources. It happened back in February. The company…

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(RBS follow-up) Ex-cop admits role in $4.2m ATM heist

Posted on May 3, 2010 by Dissent

Patsy Moy reports: Two Hong Kong men using fake bank cards produced by US-based hackers withdrew HK$4.2 million [USD $541,024.47 — Dissent] from various ATM machines in less than eight hours, the District Court heard yesterday. Cheung Hoi-wing, 40, a transport worker and former police officer, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy after admitting…

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Hacked US Treasury websites serve visitors malware

Posted on May 3, 2010 by Dissent

Dan Goodin reports: Websites operated by the US Treasury Department are redirecting visitors to websites that attempt to install malware on their PCs, a security researcher warned on Monday. The infection buries an invisible iframe in bep.treas.gov, moneyfactory.gov, and bep.gov that invokes malicious scripts from grepad.com, Roger Thompson, chief research officer of AVG Technologies, told…

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