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 [...]
Federal prosecutors this week charged a Southern California woman with aggravated identity theft and other crimes for allegedly using a popular genealogy research website to locate people who had recently died, and then taking over their credit cards. Tracy June Kirkland, 42, allegedly used Rootsweb.com to find the names, Social Security numbers and birth dates [...]
A computer intrusion into a Citibank server that processes ATM withdrawals led to two Brooklyn men making hundreds of fraudulent withdrawals from New York City cash machines in February, pocketing at least $750,000 in cash, according to federal prosecutors. The ATM crime spree is apparently the first to be publicly linked to the breach of [...]
When you hear stories that involve identity theft between a woman and her nanny, one would normally draw the conclusion that the nanny is stealing from the mother. Most likely visions of Rebecca De Mornay and scenes from Hand that Rocks the Cradle flash through your head. This time it was the nanny who was [...]
If ever there were living proof that identity theft can strike the mighty and powerful as well as hapless consumers, look no further than the nation’s chief banker: Ben Bernanke. The Federal Reserve Board chairman was one of hundreds of victims of an elaborate identity-fraud ring, headed by a convicted scam artist known as “Big [...]
EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. (AP) – A southwestern Illinois man is accused of using a college’s computer lab to commit identity theft. Madison County prosecutors have charged Matthew Cornelius, 24, of Granite City with felony identity theft. Authorities say Cornelius wasn’t enrolled at Lewis and Clark Community College when he was allowed to use the school’s computer [...]
The Internal Revenue Service reminds consumers to avoid identity theft scams that use the IRS name, logo or Web site in an attempt to convince taxpayers that the scam is a genuine communication from the IRS. Scammers may use other federal agency names, such as the U.S. Department of the Treasury. In an identity theft [...]