Alabama State employee Natacia Webster pleaded guilty on Wednesday to stealing identity information from inmates while working for the state and to providing that information to a co-conspirator who used the identities to file false tax returns. The Montgomery resident who worked for the Alabama Department of Corrections pleaded guilty to wire fraud, to aggravated […]
A federal jury on Thursday found a St. Louis Park man guilty for his role in a large, multi-state identity theft ring that operated from 2006 through 2011. Joel Delano Powell, Jr, 46, was convicted of seven counts of bank fraud, five counts of aggravated identity theft and one count of conspiracy to commit bank […]
A Putnam County woman has been charged with identity theft after authorities said she used the identity of an out-of-state veterinarian to run a mobile pet clinic. Judy Grace Tabor, 40, was arrested on charges from Putnam and St. Johns counties, where she operated Pet Care A Van and Pet Caravan, according to the State […]
(Reuters) – Sony suffered a massive breach in its video game online network that led to the theft of names, addresses and possibly credit card data belonging to 77 million user accounts in what is one of the largest-ever Internet security break-ins. Sony learned that user information had been stolen from its PlayStation Network seven […]
Irina Malezhik was ending an assignment as a Russian-language translator at a law office in 2004 when she asked an innocent but fateful question: Could anyone offer a lift to Brooklyn? The man who obliged by chance, authorities say, was a stranger named Dmitriy Yakovlev. He says she later began tutoring him in English and […]
Internet marketing giant Epsilon suffered a major data breach over the weekend, as names and email addresses were stolen in a series of hacking attacks affecting at least 19 of its client companies. In a statement to its clients, Epsilon assured that highly sensitive information had not been stolen by hackers. “The information that was […]
Stancy Nesby was pulled over for speeding, arrested and jailed for 3 days on mistaken identity. It happens that a judge issued a warrant for Stacy Nesby’s arrest after another woman arrested for cocaine possession gave Stacy’s name to the judge and then skipped her court date. The surprising issue with this mistaken identity case […]
The New York Times reports that bogus and stolen accounts on Facebook are being sold in high volume on the black market. During several weeks in February, VeriSign’s iDefense division tracked an effort to sell log-in data for 1.5 million Facebook accounts on several online criminal marketplaces, including one called Carder.su. That hacker, who used […]
In fewer than six months, some $900,000 in merchandise, gambling and telephone-services charges were siphoned out of his debit card. His attempts to salvage his finances have cost him nearly $100,000 and have bled dry his savings and retirement accounts. His credit score, once a strong 780, has been decimated. And his identity — Social […]
Twitter reset passwords for an unknown number of users whose accounts appeared to have been compromised via phishing. “As part of Twitter’s ongoing security efforts, we reset passwords for a small number of accounts that we believe may have been compromised offsite,” the company said in a statement. Some Twitter users apparently “used their Twitter […]