There’s another follow-up to the case of a former IRS employee involved in a stolen identity tax refund fraud scheme. Nakeisha Hall was originally charged in December, 2015 for her role in the scheme, and pleaded guilty in February, 2016. Hall was sentenced today. As AL.com reports: A former IRS employee, who helped taxpayers experiencing problems…
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AOA advises doctors and students to take action to protect their credit
Although the American Optometric Association (AOA) states that they have not had any data security breach, it appears that doctors and students are becoming victims of fraudulent activity, and AOA wants them to take action to protect themselves: AOA is aware of reports that suggest cyberattackers have opened or attempted to open Chase Amazon.com credit accounts…
KY: HR Employee Investigated In Identity Theft Allegations
Lex18 reports: A Mount Sterling company is under investigation amid allegations of identity theft by an employee in the company’s human resources department. The Montgomery County Sheriff Department and the management of Cooper Standard are investigating allegations of identity theft by human resources employee. Read more on Lex18.
More details emerge on Jefferson Medical Associates incidents
So there’s a bit more to the incidents recently disclosed by Jefferson Medical Associates that I had reported here. Now WDAM reports that it was Chris Vickery who had discovered a misconfigured database and had alerted JMA. For their part, JMA is pretty much accusing Vickery of hacking them. Here we go again…. From WDAM’s…
Data Breach At Oracle’s MICROS Point-of-Sale Division
Brian Krebs reports: A Russian organized cybercrime group known for hacking into banks and retailers appears to have breached hundreds of computer systems at software giant Oracle Corp., KrebsOnSecurity has learned. More alarmingly, the attackers have compromised a customer support portal for companies using Oracle’s MICROS point-of-sale credit card payment systems. Asked this weekend for comment on rumors of a large…
Missouri man repeat offender on fraud and identity theft?
Veneta Rizvic reports: Eddie Lee Regans was indicted on fraudulent use of access devices, mail fraud and aggravated identity theft charges after allegedly using the personal information of several business customers to obtain credit for personal use. Regans, 50, of St. Louis, racked up charges of $89,000 between August 2015 and July 2016, according to the…