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Users of the do-it-yourself trading site collective2.com received an “urgent” e-mail at a few minutes past noon Wednesday notifying them that the company's computer database had been breached by a hacker and that all users should log in to change their passwords immediately. ...read full article

Researchers at the Institute of Criminal Justice Studies of the University of Portsmouth recently conducted a study under NFA (National Fraud Authority) to find that people who become victims of spam mails, fake lotteries, phishing and identity theft, feel so embarrassed that they restrain from telling police about them. ...read full article

December 30, 2009

Adobe to be Prime Target for Malware in 2010

2009 is drawing to a close, and 2010 is almost upon us. The Chinese calendar says 2010 is the Year of the Tiger, but a report released from McAfee claims it could be the year of Adobe malware. ...read full article

With education-related cyber-security threats expected to rise in 2010, WatchGuard is predicting the top threats facing schools, colleges and universities. ...read full article

At the 26th Chaos Communication Congress (26C3) in Berlin, security researcher Fabian Yamaguchi demonstrated a number of vulnerabilities that can apparently be found in many average communication networks and affect all levels from the access layer to the application layer. Attackers exploit many minor design flaws which allow "dangerous attacks" when combined, explained the Berlin-based security expert who last year investigated vulnerabilities in the basic TCP internet protocol. Overall, the "bugs" can reportedly be exploited to hijack a proxy server such as Squid and control all of the network traffic that flows through it. ...read full article

December 29, 2009

After Hacks, Louisiana Restaurants Sue POS Companies

More than 100,000 credit cards exposed by keylogger attack, Secret Service says

Two lawsuits have been filed in Louisiana after point-of-sale (POS) systems in restaurants were allegedly hacked via keylogger, resulting in the exposure of some 100,000 credit cards. ...read full article

December 29, 2009

Microsoft confirms IIS hole

Microsoft has confirmed the security hole in its IIS web server, but hasn't disclosed which versions of the product are affected. According to the finder of the "semi-colon bug", versions up to and including version 6 are vulnerable. The hole allows attackers, for instance, to camouflage executable ASP files as harmless JPEG files and upload malicious code to a server. ...read full article

December 29, 2009

Good Guys Bring Down the Mega-D Botnet

Chalk up one for the defenders. Here’s how a trio of security researchers used a three-step attack to defeat a 250,000-pronged botnet.

For two years as a researcher with security company FireEye, Atif Mushtaq worked to keep Mega-D bot malware from infecting clients' networks. In the process, he learned how its controllers operated it. Last June, he began publishing his findings online. In November, he suddenly switched from defense to offense. And Mega-D--a powerful, resilient botnet that had forced 250,000 PCs to do its bidding--went down. ...read full article

December 29, 2009

Two indicted in Maryland straw buyer fraud scheme allegations

A federal grand jury has indicted Dema Daiga, age 28, of College Park, Maryland and Oluseun Oshosanya, age 29, of Laurel, Maryland, for wire fraud and aggravated identity theft arising from a scheme to defraud a mortgage lending company of approximately $664,493, announced United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein. The indictment was returned on December 2, 2009 and unsealed on December 23, 2009 upon the arrests of the defendants. Daiga is scheduled to have his detention hearing today at 11:30 a.m. and Oshosanya is scheduled to have his initial appearance today at 2:30 p.m. ...read full article

December 29, 2009

Crimestoppers and Champaign police are seeking the public's help in solving a case of deceptive practice, identity theft and forgery that took place last month. ...read full article

December 28, 2009

CRS: Privacy: An Overview of Federal Statutes Governing Wiretapping and Electronic Eavesdropping

This report provides an overview of federal law governing wiretapping and electronic eavesdropping. It also appends citations to state law in the area and contains a bibliography of legal commentary as well as the text of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). ...read full article

December 28, 2009

Hospital keeps secret DNA file

Children’s University hospital in Temple Street is under investigation by the Data Protection Commissioner

A DUBLIN hospital has built a database containing the DNA of almost every person born in the country since 1984 without their knowledge in an apparent breach of data protection laws. ...read full article

December 28, 2009

Oregon drivers file lawsuit against purchasers of state database

Some Oregon drivers have filed a class action lawsuit against Direct Response Media Group and others who they claim purchased their drivers’ records in violation of Driver Privacy Protection Act, 18 U.S.C. §2721. ...read full article

December 28, 2009

Former Executive Accused Of Selling Data From Matchmaking Firm

Ex-employee allegedly ransomed customer information, then tried to deal it to competitors

A former executive of a matchmaking service firm in China is accused of stealing the personal data of about 16,000 registrants and attempting to sell it to other matchmaking firms. ...read full article

December 25, 2009

Woman faces ID theft charges on Christmas Eve

In Court: Police say they found 25 stolen licenses, in her purse; she was trying to open bank account

A 25-year-old Olympia woman appeared in court on Christmas Eve after she was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of 25 counts of identity theft and one count each of forgery, marijuana possession and possession of methamphetamine. ...read full article

December 24, 2009

Sex Offender Charged in Disappearance of Maryland Girl

Police in Maryland were searching Christmas Eve for a missing 11-year-old girl last seen wearing fuzzy Christmas pajamas, and they have charged a registered child sex offender in her disappearance. ...read full article

A former Massachusetts prison inmate has been given an 18-month prison sentence for hacking prison computers while he was incarcerated. ...read full article

December 23, 2009

Identity theft feared as data lost

Durham Region's loss of flu clinic information on 83,524 people called `disturbing'

Tens of thousands of people who attended flu clinics in Durham Region may be at risk of identity theft following the disappearance of a USB key containing their personal information. ...read full article

December 23, 2009

Credit card provider suffers breach, personal data lost

MBNA, the UK’s largest credit card provider, has confirmed that a laptop containing the personal details of its customers has been stolen from one of its third party contractors – NCO Europe Ltd – earlier this month. The information is said to include personal details, however, no PIN numbers were reported to be contained in the stolen data. ...read full article

December 23, 2009

Origin says MBNA laptop fiasco could easily have been avoided

Reports that a laptop containing the personal records of thousands of customers of MBNA Bank has been stolen (http://bit.ly/6BCAtg) mean that large numbers of the bank's credit cardholders will now be spend a worrisome Christmas and New Year break, concerned about their identities getting stolen. ...read full article

A Twitter-style service offered by a government-linked news site in China was hacked and has since gone offline, according to screenshots posted on the Web. ...read full article

December 22, 2009

12 things computer users should fear in 2010

About once a year, computer security news leaps out of the technology section and onto the front page and the top of network news broadcasts. ...read full article

December 21, 2009

26 Arrested in Three States in Medicare Fraud Schemes

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Federal agents arrested 26 suspects in three states on Tuesday, including a doctor and nurses, in a crackdown on Medicare fraud totaling $61 million. ...read full article

December 21, 2009

New credit card scam reaches Kent County

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WZZM)- A new credit card scam is circulating, just in time for the holidays. ...read full article

December 21, 2009

iPhone Worm Was Simple, Yet Effective, Analysis Shows

The iKee worm that was infecting jailbroken iPhones last month was a simple, yet effective, piece of software that shows how easy it might be for an attacker to create a fairly large, functioning botnet comprising mobile devices, an analysis of the worm shows. ...read full article

December 21, 2009

Google Found Guilty In French Copyright Case

A judge ordered Google to pay 300,000 euros to a French publisher, plus 10,000 euros per day until it removes extracts of the publisher's books from its database.

A Paris court on Friday ruled that Google violated French copyright law in digitizing books, but it;s unlikely the decision will be the last word on the search engine's controversial book-scanning project. ...read full article

December 21, 2009

Spyware snags Akron Children’s Hospital patient and employee info

The Associated Press reports that Scott Graham of Ohio faces prison time after pleading guilty in federal court to felony charges of intercepting electronic communications by using spyware to spy on a woman’s computer activities. By spying on her, he also accidentally retrieved confidential information from the computer system at Akron Children’s Hospital, where she was employed. The software he employed was purchased over the Internet by a firm who says it is legal to use the software — if it’s installed on a computer owned by the purchaser. ...read full article

December 21, 2009

PennDOT computer heist remains unsolved

Three years after a mysterious heist of computer equipment from a state driver's license center, police are still unsure why the crooks targeted the state Department of Transportation building. ...read full article

December 21, 2009

Privilege Takes Center Stage as WaMu Bankruptcy Heats Up

Lawyers for Washington Mutual filed papers Friday in the bank's Chapter 11 case claiming Sullivan & Cromwell, on behalf of WaMu's new owners at JPMorgan Chase, has been sending out letters asking WaMu's old law firms to turn over their client files on WaMu -- files that include privileged material. ...read full article

A laptop containing the personal information of tens of thousands of U.S. Army soldiers, family members and U.S. Department of Defense employees was recently stolen. ...read full article

December 18, 2009

Twitter Downed By 'Iranian' Hackers

Social networking site infiltrated by group claiming ties to Middle Eastern country.

Social networking site Twitter was knocked offline early Friday by hackers who claimed to have links to Iran. ...read full article

December 18, 2009

December 17, 2009

U.S. House to toughen internal cybersecurity policy

Congressional leaders on Tuesday accepted five new cybersecurity policy recommendations aimed at protecting sensitive information belonging to the U.S. House and securing its IT systems from attack. ...read full article

December 17, 2009

Credit Suisse Group has agreed to pay $536 million to settle a Justice Department probe and admit to violating U.S. economic sanctions by hiding the booming illegal business it was doing for Iranian banks. ...read full article

December 17, 2009

Autopsy reports altered in data breach at WDH: Frisbie says it will notify families of deceased

SOCIAL ENGINEERING IS GROWING UP. Social engineering, the act of tricking people into giving up sensitive information, is nothing new. But today's criminals are having a heyday using e-mail and social networks. ...read full article

More than ever, your personal information is flapping in the breeze

If Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg can't figure out his social networking site's privacy settings after they were ripped open earlier this month, what hope is there for the rest of us? ...read full article

December 17, 2009

Ohio court: Cell phone searches require warrant

ACLU described ruling by Ohio Supreme Court as landmark case

COLUMBUS, Ohio - The Ohio Supreme Court said Tuesday police officers must obtain a search warrant before scouring the contents of a suspect's cell phone, unless their safety is in danger. ...read full article

December 16, 2009

Microsoft Tackles the Child Pornography Problem

The Internet is a hyper-efficient distribution channel for media of all kinds. So it is hardly surprising, even if disturbing, that the march of the Net has also brought “an explosion in the spread of child pornography,” as Ernie Allen, president of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, put it. ...read full article

December 16, 2009

UC San Francisco said late Tuesday it has alerted 600 patients and others that an external hacker may have obtained “temporary access to emails containing their personal information” as a result of a late September phishing scam. ...read full article

December 16, 2009

Drug data mining ban unlikely in Senate health bill

No vote seen for "prescription mining" proposal

WASHINGTON, Dec 14 (Reuters) - A Democratic proposal to ban the collection of doctors' prescription records for marketing purposes is unlikely to be included as part of the Senate's overall health reform bill, a Senate staff member said on Monday. ...read full article

December 16, 2009

Colorado Supreme Court rules that immigrants' tax records are private, were illegally searched

DENVER — The Colorado Supreme Court ruled Monday that authorities violated the constitutional and privacy rights of suspected illegal immigrants when they used tax returns to try and build hundreds of identity theft cases against them. ...read full article

Interview with Jay Foley of the Identity Theft Resource

Financial scams and incidents of medical identity theft are on the rise - and they're among the main threats to business and consumers in 2010. ...read full article

December 15, 2009

How to Protect Against Medical Identity Theft

Medical identity theft is on the rise. It's a crime that most often originates from within the health care system and the theft can take months or even years to be discovered. ...read full article

December 15, 2009

RockYou hacked, 32 million account passwords potentially exposed

RockYou has suffered a serious hacker attack that has exposed 32 million of its customer usernames and passwords, leading to possible identity theft. ...read full article

December 15, 2009

Court Backs Lawyers In ID Theft Rule Fight

A Washington, D.C., judge has issued an opinion giving a further boost to a recent partial victory for attorneys fighting to be exempted from a rule that would force them to root out and stop identity theft. ...read full article

The FBI warned consumers today about an ongoing threat involving pop-up security messages that appear while they are on the Internet. ...read full article

December 14, 2009

Microsoft Warns of Increased Malware in Pirated Software

According to Microsoft, reports about fake computer software that are largely corrupted by malicious programs like viruses have increased twofold during 2007-08, counting some 150,000. ...read full article

December 14, 2009

Cyber crime poses threat to e-commerce

The past 12 months have been a banner year for cyber crime. And that could be bad news for the future of e-commerce. ...read full article

December 14, 2009

Man allegedly tries to collect on life insurance, claiming he is dead

A Wrigleyville, Ill., man is under arrest, charged with felony insurance fraud after trying to convince his insurer he was deceased. ...read full article

December 14, 2009

Attacks on strong authentication factors need new defenses

Fraudsters have started to raid user accounts by beating strong two-factor authentication methods. Gartner analysts said that Trojan-based, man-in-the-browser attacks are circumventing strong two-factor authentication, enabled through one-time password (OTP) tokens. Other strong authentication factors, such as those using chip cards and biometric technology that rely on browser communications, can be similarly defeated. ...read full article

December 11, 2009

Droid Smartphone Hacked

Exploit lets phone users gain administrative root access to Google Android-based phones

First the iPhone, now the Droid: A hacker has unleashed an exploit that lets a user wrest administrative root control of his or her Motorola Droid smartphone. ...read full article

December 11, 2009

2009 in threats: Fake security software, search engines and social networks

The latest State of the Internet 2009 report by CA states that the most notable 2009 online threats were rogue/fake security software, major search engines, social networks and Web 2.0 threats. The report compiles trends from the first half of 2009. ...read full article

December 11, 2009

ID theft ring caught in Holton

HOLTON — More than a dozen people accused in an identity theft ring have been charged with fraud and forgery, Attorney General Steve Six said Thursday. ...read full article

PRESTON, Md.- A Preston man is facing charges in three counties in connection with a check and check card fraud case. ...read full article

December 11, 2009

FTC Report Finds Sexually and Violently Explicit Content in Online Virtual Worlds Accessed by Minors

Recommends Best Practices to Shield Children and Teens

The Federal Trade Commission today issued a report that examines the incidence of sexually and violently explicit content in online virtual worlds. The congressionally mandated report, “Virtual Worlds and Kids: Mapping the Risks,” urges operators of virtual worlds to take a number of steps to keep explicit content away from children and teens, and recommends that parents familiarize themselves with the virtual worlds their kids visit. ...read full article

December 11, 2009

Government plans to launch cloud next year

The Government is creating a blueprint for its private cloud infrastructure and expects to launch across the public sector next year. ...read full article

December 10, 2009

Sexting - education, research, and multidisciplinary prevention and response

Earlier this week, I participated in a Summit organized by the National District Attorneys Association and the National Center for the Prevention of Child Abuse with a variety of professionals in the child protection arena. While other attendees focused in on the problem of child sex trafficking, my small group concentrated on the phenomenon of sexting and self-exploitation. ...read full article

An electronics testing firm in Louisiana is suing its bank, Capital One, alleging that the financial institution was negligent when it failed to stop hackers from transferring nearly $100,000 out of its account earlier this year. ...read full article

December 9, 2009

T-Mobile data scam detected a year ago

Customers in the dark

The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has been investigating the theft and sale of T-Mobile customers' personal data for almost a year, it has emerged. ...read full article

December 9, 2009

EPIC Supports Privacy Safeguards for Genetic Information Recommends Robust Techniques for Deidentification

EPIC filed comments with the Department of Health and Human Services, advising the federal agency to strengthen the requirements for classifying data as “de-identified” under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule. ...read full article

December 9, 2009

Data stolen from HSBC in Switzerland: Bank

GENEVA: Data related to less than 10 clients was stolen from HSBC's Swiss branch, the bank said on Wednesday, amid media reports that some names of alleged French tax evaders was obtained by France through theft. ...read full article

December 9, 2009

24,000 employees affected by data breach

Personal information exposed on the Internet, University working to minimize future threats

Important personal information, such as social security numbers, names and zip codes, of many Notre Dame employees was exposed to the Internet after the University accidentally placed the information in a publicly accessible location. ...read full article

December 9, 2009

The US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has revealed industry secrets about airport passenger screening practices by accidentally publishing an in-house manual online. ...read full article

December 9, 2009

Verizon: Data Breaches Getting More Sophisticated

Methods of stealing data are becoming increasingly sophisticated, but attackers are still gaining initial access to networks through known, preventable vulnerabilities, according to a report released by Verizon Business on Wednesday. ...read full article

December 9, 2009

Fired for Refusing To Let Bosses Use Son's Social Security Number, Waitress Says

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (CN) - A waitress says her managers fired her because she refused to take a bribe to let an undocumented kitchen worker use her son's Social Security number. Sheila Everly sued Legal Sea Foods in Westchester County Court. ...read full article

December 9, 2009

Two Data Security Breaches Give State Attorneys General a Chance to Exercise Their New HIPAA Powers

In a sign that state attorneys general may be flexing the HIPAA enforcement muscle granted by the HITECH Act provisions in the Recovery Act, the Connecticut and Arizona attorneys general are investigating health plans that recently experienced data breaches that they failed to disclose for several months. ...read full article

December 9, 2009

Police pledge on desal privacy breach

Victoria Police say privacy laws prevent them from releasing private information about opponents of Victoria's desalination plant.

They are reviewing an agreement that appears to allow police to give details about protesters to the company AquaSure, which is building the $3 billion plant at Wonthaggi, in the state's east. ...read full article

December 9, 2009

Men Accused of File-Sharing Scam

SAN DIEGO (CN) - Two San Diegans stole $20,000 by stealing identities of people who use peer-to-peer file-sharing software, federal prosecutors said. Jeffrey Steven Girandola, 32, and Kajohn Phommavong, 25, are charged with conspiracy, computer fraud, access device fraud and aggravated identity theft, the U.S. Attorney's Office said. ...read full article

December 9, 2009

Nevada agent fraudulently collects $27, faces four years in prison

A former Nevada insurance agent pleaded guilty to insurance fraud and could face up to four years in prison for writing fake insurance policies for friends and relatives without their knowledge. ...read full article

December 9, 2009

Germany plans Internet virus phonecall alerts

German officials are planning to step up the fight against online viruses by phoning Internet users to warn them their computers are infected, an industry summit was told Tuesday. ...read full article

December 7, 2009

Feds Challenged in Bid to Dismiss Wiretapping Suit

(CN) - The government can't use national security to justify its illegal wiretapping program, class-action attorneys argued in their bid to block the government from using the state secrets privilege to have the case dismissed. ...read full article

December 7, 2009

CBS 6 Exclusive: Confidential UAlbany documents part of Climategate leak

t least two confidential documents that SUNY lawyers refused to release earlier this year were leaked as part of thousands hacked from a top climate research center last month. ...read full article

On Saturday The Age revealed that Victoria Police had agreed to hand over to Aquasure, the international consortium building a desalination plant near Wonthaggi, information about people involved in protests against the plant. In a 20-page memorandum of understanding, signed in August by Assistant Commissioner Paul Evans and the secretary of the Department of Sustainability and Environment, Peter Harris, the police agreed to release to Aquasure ”law-enforcement data” in the form of ”any text, images, audio and video … and includes (but is not limited to) data related to individuals, aggregated data, written reports and correspondence, memoranda, police diaries, official notebooks, running sheets and other data repositories”. In other words, anything at all. ...read full article

December 7, 2009

Facebook users fall for rubber duck's friend request

People still haven't learned that social sites are criminal gold mines, says security firm

Computerworld - Facebook users haven't learned to keep their personal information private, a security researcher said today after his company conducted a test that sent randomly-selected people a friend request from bogus accounts. ...read full article

December 6, 2009

Kids' Social Security numbers on school postcards

RALEIGH -- The Wake County school system accidentally sent out about 5,000 postcards with students' Social Security numbers printed on the front, a mistake that angered parents and will cost the district nearly $100,000 to remedy. ...read full article

Government needs to focus on offering businesses incentives to fix security problems and educating corporate leaders about the benefits of enhanced cybersecurity

The U.S. government and private businesses need to overhaul the way they look at cybersecurity, with the government offering businesses new incentives to fix security problems, the Internet Security Alliance said. ...read full article

December 4, 2009

Thanksgiving Webcam promo leads to malware

IDG News Service - The $10 Webcam that Anna Giesman bought her daughter at Office Depot over the Thanksgiving weekend sounds like one of those deals that's too good to be true. And for her, it was. ...read full article

An elderly Durban woman has become the latest victim of a Home Affairs bungle resulting in her being declared dead. ...read full article

Echometrix suspended from selling products via military's shopping portal

Computerworld - Echometrix Inc., a vendor of parental control software that is already under fire for alleged violations of an online children's privacy law, has been suspended from selling its products on a Department of Defense shopping portal because of privacy concerns. ...read full article

December 3, 2009

Morton loses confidential papers

Brief case stolen from friend's car eventually recovered

Sustainable Resources Minister Ted Morton told CBC News on Wednesday he felt really "stupid" after his brief case, containing confidential government documents, was stolen from a friend's car and found in a downtown apartment building. ...read full article

December 3, 2009

Memory stick given to Bristol boy sparks school data law row

A school has been accused of breaching data laws after it sent a 10-year-old boy home with a computer memory stick which contained sensitive information about his fellow pupils. ...read full article

Websites registered in the African nation of Cameroon are the most likely domains to infect users' computers with malware, according to McAfee's annual study on the web's riskiest recesses. ...read full article

December 3, 2009

Breached restaurateurs suing point-of-sale provider

Seven restaurant chains that suffered data breaches are suing the maker and distributor of a bank card processing system, which they say was vulnerable and allowed hackers to steal customer information. ...read full article

December 3, 2009

Bronx woman faces identity theft, forgery charges in New Rochelle

NEW ROCHELLE — A 45-year-old Bronx woman was arrested after, police said, she tried to use an altered Staten Island resident's driver's license as identification to withdraw $4,500 from Chase bank in New Rochelle. ...read full article

December 3, 2009

Fed chair's ID theft linked to woman charged in Colorado

DENVER - A woman busted for stealing the identity of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's wife now faces identity theft charges in Denver after cashing stolen checks at banks in Cherry Creek. ...read full article

IDG News Service - Two Bulgarians have been sentenced for their roles in an online money-laundering scheme that collected about $1.2 million from U.S. residents and sent it to a criminal group in Eastern Europe, the U.S. Department of Justice said. ...read full article

The judge who ruled that lawyers can't be forced to comply with new federal rules meant to prevent identity theft released his written opinion Tuesday. ...read full article

Annual Phishing Related Losses Estimated to be as High as $9.4M per Million Customers

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December 2, 2009

Hackers spread virus with swine flu vaccine offer

Hackers are spreading a vicious computer virus through spam email messages that urge recipients to visit a bogus website offering vaccinations to protect them against another virus -- the one that causes swine flu. ...read full article

December 2, 2009

Gurnee man accused of ID theft

A 34-year-old Gurnee man was arrested last by Lincolnshire police as a suspect in an identity theft case. ...read full article

December 2, 2009

Data Breach Can Lead to Identity Theft

A recently released report reinforces the strong link between fraud and identity theft and warns consumers that they should be more proactive when it comes to protecting their personal information from ID thieves. ...read full article

December 1, 2009

Scammers get more powerful tools for tapping social networks

Potential attackers are able to build detailed profiles that can then be used in highly targeted phishing scams against individuals and enterprises

New tools capable of quickly finding, gathering, and correlating information about individuals from social networking sites and other public sources are giving online scammers a powerful new weapon, say security researchers. ...read full article

December 1, 2009

Identity thieves prey on careless holiday shoppers

December may be the peak of the holiday shopping season, but it’s also the time of year when customers are most at risk for identity theft. ...read full article

December 1, 2009

Iwallet Corp launches iWallet to help prevent identity theft

iWallet helps to avoid identity theft, as it could be opened only if it recognizes your finger print.

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December 1, 2009

I.D. Theft Suspects Arrested in Madera County

MADERA COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- A traffic stop has led to four arrests in Madera County; all of them are suspects in an alleged identity theft operation with victims across the country. ...read full article

December 1, 2009

Despite warnings, plenty still falling for scams

The letter offered the deal of a lifetime - the chance to split at least $16.5 million. ...read full article

December 1, 2009

Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank Partners with Cyveillance to Increase Customers' Online Security

Partnership enables Bank added customer protection from online threats and improved online protection of its brand

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December 1, 2009

Identity theft equipment, cocaine found at apartment, Alameda police say

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November 30, 2009

The Office of Fair Trading is warning the public to beware of fake lottery scams. ...read full article

November 30, 2009

Holiday Shopping Tips by the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3)

This holiday season the Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI) is reminding people that cyber criminals continue to aggressively create new ways to steal money and personal information. Scammers use many techniques to fool potential victims including fraudulent auction sales, reshipping merchandise purchased with a stolen credit card, and sale of fraudulent or stolen gift cards through auction sites at a discounted price. ...read full article

November 30, 2009

NJ VA official admits faking military record

CAMDEN, N.J. — An official in New Jersey's Military and Veterans Affairs Department has admitted he falsely claimed a heroic record in the Vietnam War as a paratrooper and artilleryman. ...read full article

November 30, 2009

Credit-Card Scammers Drilled Dentists

MANHATTAN (CN) - A man was sentenced to nearly 10 years in prison for leading a credit-card fraud ring that stole the identities of 176 dentists. Michael A. Roseboro and his crew stole $1.75 million from dentists around the country by claiming to be an investigator with Visa or Bank of America who was looking into potentially fraudulent charges on the dentists' credit cards. ...read full article

Experts say unauthorized access by 12 employees raises privacy, integrity concerns

At least 12 Metro employees have been found since 2005 to be improperly accessing and disseminating criminal history information for reasons unrelated to police work, according to a Metro filing in a recent lawsuit. ...read full article

November 27, 2009

Worm author given a job as an iPhone App Developer

Mogeneration, an Australian software company, has hired the author of the first iPhone worm, Ashley Towns, to develop applications for the iPhone App Store. At the beginning of November, 21 year old Towns circulated the "Ikee" worm via Australian operator Optus's UMTS network. The worm penetrates vulnerable jailbroken iPhones and spreads using open SSH connections. Once logged into a phone, the worm copies itself onto the device, deletes the SSH service and changes the wallpaper to a photo of Rick Astley with the caption "ikee is never going to give you up". It then starts searching for further iPhones to infect. ...read full article

November 27, 2009

Social Security hopes to expand its data exchange

The move is considered a step in the growth of the nascent National Health Information Network.

fter what it called a successful year testing the National Health Information Network with select hospital systems and regional health information exchanges, the Social Security Administration said its next step will be to exchange data with the Dept. of Veterans Affairs and the Dept. of Justice. ...read full article

November 27, 2009

China Warns About Return of Destructive Panda Virus

A computer worm that China warned Internet users against is an updated version of the Panda Burning Incense virus, which infected millions of PCs in the country three years ago, according to McAfee. ...read full article

November 25, 2009

Biegelman and Borgers Bring CFE Expertise to Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission

A bipartisan Congressional commission created to investigate the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression begins its work with two Certified Fraud Examiners serving in key positions: Martin T. Biegelman, CFE, CCEP was appointed Assistant Director for the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (FCIC), and Thomas Borgers, CFE, was appointed Senior Investigator. ...read full article

November 25, 2009

FBI Investigating Whether Hospital Leaked Patient Info to Personal Injury Attorneys

LAS VEGAS (CN) - The FBI is investigating whether the University Medical Center released confidential patient records to personal injury attorneys looking for potential clients. ...read full article

November 25, 2009

Another Corruption Allegation in New York

MANHATTAN (CN) - A clerk in New York City's Human Resources Administration stole copies of welfare recipients' birth certificates and Social Security numbers and sold them, federal prosecutors said. Michael Wills, 59, faces up to 15 years in prison if convicted of aggravated identity theft. ...read full article

November 24, 2009

ACORN Docs Pulled from Dumpster

As Derrick Roach tells it, it was either luck or Divine intervention. His version of events may be hard to believe for ACORN supporters but the former Republican state assembly candidate believes something drew him to the dumpster behind the ACORN office in National City on the night of Friday, Oct. 9. ...read full article

November 24, 2009

Social Security, county bank account numbers accidentally made public

Copies of a report into past Anderson County finances, released to the public last week, contained Social Security numbers for two people, business tax identification numbers for two companies and three active county bank account numbers. ...read full article

November 24, 2009

Hancock Fabrics Linked to Fraud in 3 States

CA, WI and MO Investigators Say Recent Thefts Tied to Retailer's Transactions

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November 24, 2009

Men sentenced in University Hospital records theft

A garden-variety car burglary in Kearns caused widespread concern last year when police learned a stolen metal case contained tapes with the personal information of about 1.5 million University Hospital patients. ...read full article

On Monday, it appeared that Jets receiver David Clowney was on the Larry Johnson career path, via a Twitter rant that invited a fan via direct message to "kill yourself" and a string of "F" bombs on his public page. ...read full article

November 24, 2009

University hands confidential student records to media

UNIONTOWN, Pa. — A southwestern Pennsylvania woman has been jailed on charges she used her father's identity, and those of her two young children, to try to open up dozens of credit card accounts. ...read full article

November 23, 2009

Defeating identity theft in Australia

Tonight, Attorney General Hon. Robert McClelland launched Australia's Cyber Security Strategy, formalising the roles, responsibilities and policies of the Australian intelligence, cyber and policing agencies. This includes the goals of education, secure operation and resiliency. ...read full article

November 23, 2009

Bank teller, 5 others charged in identity theft rings

WEST PALM BEACH - Six people, including a bank teller, have been arrested in a federal investigation into identity theft rings in South Florida. ...read full article

We surveyed almost 500 business technology professionals and found little end-to-end encryption use. Instead, we're doing only what auditors demand.

If you go solely by top-level stats on encryption use, you'll come away feeling pretty secure--86% of the the 499 business technology professionals responding to our InformationWeek Analytics State of Encryption Survey employ encryption of some type. But that finding doesn't begin to tell the real story. Only 14% of respondents say encryption is pervasive in their organizations. Database table-level encryption is in use by just 26%, while just 38% encrypt data on mobile devices. And 31%--more than any other response--characterize the extent of their use as just enough to meet regulatory requirements. ...read full article

November 21, 2009

AZ Attorney General to investigate Health Net

A second state’s attorney general is opening an investigation into the Health Net breach that was only recently revealed six months after the data were either lost or stolen. ...read full article

November 21, 2009

Holmes hospital flags hacked e-mail

Hynes drops re-election bid amid patient privacy worries

A power struggle at Brevard County's largest hospital has taken a serious turn with allegations that the chief of the medical staff pilfered another doctor's e-mail account and violated patient confidentiality laws. ...read full article

November 21, 2009

Planned medical privacy rules redundant, says commissioner

EDMONTON — A new bill meant to clarify privacy rules for paramedics is redundant and threatens individual privacy, Alberta's information and privacy commissioner said on Friday. ...read full article

November 21, 2009

Miss. woman gets almost 7 years for identity theft

JACKSON — Bria Danielle Morris was sentenced to nearly seven years Friday for stealing the identity of someone she met at a women’s shelter and using it to rip off a charity, businesses and people. ...read full article

November 20, 2009

House committee passes cyber R&D, standards bill

Two draft bills intended to improve the security of cyberspace were combined into one piece of legislation that was passed Wednesday by the House Committee on Science and Technology. ...read full article

November 20, 2009

Microsoft denies it built 'backdoor' in Windows 7

Don't worry, company tells users; NSA involved only in security compliance standards

Computerworld - Microsoft today denied that it has built a backdoor into Windows 7, a concern that surfaced yesterday after a senior National Security Agency (NSA) official testified before Congress that the agency had worked on the operating system. ...read full article

November 20, 2009

Three indicted for Comcast hack last year

Three hackers have been indicted for redirecting the Comcast.net Web site to a page of their own making in 2008. ...read full article

November 20, 2009

Report suggests discrepancy between reported and actual data loss incidents

A study released by the Ponemon Institute suggests that the number of reported data loss incidents in the UK is significantly higher than 415 reported to the Information Commissioners' Office. ...read full article

Under U.S. privacy laws, HIPAA protections extend past death. The same does not appear to be true in New Zealand. ...read full article

November 19, 2009

DNA Testing Firm Goes Bankrupt; Who Gets the Data?

An Icelandic firm that offers private DNA testing to customers has filed for bankruptcy in the U.S., raising privacy concerns about the fate of customer DNA samples and records, according to the Times of London. ...read full article

November 19, 2009

Dura Identity Theft Investigation

MANCELONA, MI -- Around 300 employees at this Dura plant in Mancelona were handed a pink slip more than a year ago. This time it's a letter in their mailbox from the same company that is causing some concern. ...read full article

November 19, 2009

NJ men accused of collecting $11.5 million in tax scheme involving identity theft

Franklin, Old Bridge men accused of collecting millions in bogus tax refunds

A Franklin man and an Old Bridge man are among four facing federal charges in an alleged scam to collect nearly $11.5 million in bogus tax refunds using stolen identities, authorities said Wednesday. ...read full article

November 19, 2009

'Doppelganger' held for fraud

A Zimbabwean national was arrested after the man whose identity he allegedly stole tracked him down, Gauteng police said on Thursday. ...read full article

Second-hand ATM trade opens up fraud risk

Craigslist cash machine contains 1,000 card numbers

...read full article

November 18, 2009

UK cybercops cuff ZeuS Trojan suspect pair

Alleged Bonnie and Clyde of malware

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November 18, 2009

Bill would restrict P2P use on government networks

House bill is in response to embarrassing data leaks

Computerworld - House lawmakers introduced a bill that would restrict the use of peer-to-peer technology on government networks in response to several embarrassing data leaks. ...read full article

November 18, 2009

The uninsured turn to fraud

Uninsured use identity theft to win access to care

Identity theft in health care is rising dramatically as a way for uninsured patients to receive treatment, according to the chief investigator for the state’s largest medical insurer. ...read full article

November 17, 2009

Hackers Breach State Database

Affected Servers Hold Worker's Compensation Information

LINCOLN, Neb. -- A hacker has broken into the Nebraska Worker's Compensation database, prompting an FBI investigation and an effort to contact those who may be affected. ...read full article

November 17, 2009

Trojans likely to follow Win 7 activation hack

Trojan attacks are likely in the wake of the Windows 7 product activation system cracks developed last week, less than a month after the release of Microsoft's latest operating system. ...read full article

November 17, 2009

Are nations paying criminals for botnet attacks?

Network World - Nations that want to disrupt their enemies' banking, media and government resources don't need their own technical skills; they can simply order botnet attack services from cybercriminals. ...read full article

November 17, 2009

Chicago's Camera Network Is Everywhere

Extensive Surveillance System Integrates Nonpolice Video, Raises Concerns About Possible Privacy Abuses

A giant web of video-surveillance cameras has spread across Chicago, aiding police in the pursuit of criminals but raising fears that the City of Big Shoulders is becoming the City of Big Brother. ...read full article

November 17, 2009

3 charged in identity theft scheme

Federal agents have charged three women in connection with a scheme to allegedly use identity thefts to defraud local banks. ...read full article

November 17, 2009

The Queen could better manage security of personal information than civil servants are

Her majesty’s servants seem to be lacking any sense of responsibility these days. ...read full article

November 17, 2009

Good afternoon. I am joined here by some of my partners in the new effort we are launching today, Secretary of the Treasury Tim Geithner, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Shawn Donovan, and Robert Khuzami, the Director of Enforcement at the Securities and Exchange Commission, who is here representing SEC Chairwoman Mary Schapiro. ...read full article

November 17, 2009

President Obama Establishes Interagency Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force

WASHINGTON – Attorney General Eric Holder, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Shaun Donovan, and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairwoman Mary Schapiro today announced that President Barack Obama has established by Executive Order an interagency Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force to strengthen efforts to combat financial crime. The Department of Justice will lead the task force and the Department of Treasury, HUD and the SEC will serve on the steering committee. The task force’s leadership, along with representatives from a broad range of federal agencies, regulatory authorities and inspectors general, will work with state and local partners to investigate and prosecute significant financial crimes, ensure just and effective punishment for those who perpetrate financial crimes, address discrimination in the lending and financial markets and recover proceeds for victims. ...read full article

November 17, 2009

Security researchers have detected a massive blackhat SEO (search engine optimization) campaign consisting of over 200,000 compromised web sites, all redirecting to fake security software (Inst_58s6.exe), commonly referred to as scareware. ...read full article

November 17, 2009

E.On reveals customer bank data

The personal details of 817 E.On customers have been disclosed in error.

E.On said it was trying to find out how it happened and was in the process of contacting all of those affected. It has apologised for the mistake. ...read full article

November 17, 2009

Shadowserver to Take Over as Mega-D Botnet Herder

An effort is underway to clean up tens of thousands of computers infected with malicious software known for churning out thousands of spam messages per hour. ...read full article

November 16, 2009

Online gangs cash in on swine flu

LONDON (Reuters) - Criminal gangs are making millions of dollars out of the H1N1 flu pandemic by selling fake flu drugs over the internet, a web security firm said on Monday. ...read full article

November 16, 2009

Raleigh woman sentenced in ID theft scam

A Raleigh woman has been sentenced to one year and one day imprisonment in an identity theft case in federal court, according to a statement issued by United States Attorney George E.B. Holding. ...read full article

November 16, 2009

Customers' Info Stolen From Blue Cross Office

68 Computer Hard Drives Contained Social Security Numbers

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. -- One of Tennessee's largest holders of personal information confirms that an October theft from a Chattanooga office affects about 2 million of its clients. ...read full article

November 16, 2009

Report: Countries prepping for cyberwar

Major countries and nation-states are engaged in a "Cyber Cold War," amassing cyberweapons, conducting espionage, and testing networks in preparation for using the Internet to conduct war, according to a new report to be released on Tuesday by McAfee. ...read full article

November 16, 2009

Computerworld - A decision by lawmakers to slash funding for the unpopular Real ID national driver's license program has put an already struggling initiative on life support. The U.S. Senate recently approved a $43 billion budget for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for the federal government's 2010 fiscal year, which began Oct. 1. The appropriation called for substantial increases in DHS spending in several key technology areas but slashed Real ID funding by 40%, from $100 million to $60 million. ...read full article

WALLINGFORD — A sharp-eyed bank teller foiled a man’s attempt Thursday to steal $5,000 from a Bank of America account using fake identification. ...read full article

November 14, 2009

Microsoft confirms first Windows 7 zero-day bug

Company urges users to block ports until a patch is ready, but the workaround cripples browsers

Microsoft late on Friday confirmed that an unpatched vulnerability exists in Windows 7, but downplayed the problem, saying most users would be protected from attack by blocking two ports at the firewall. ...read full article

November 14, 2009

Biometrics sparks privacy fears in Ireland

Collecting biometric information could put civil liberties and privacy at risk, despite considerable benefits, says the Irish Council for Bioethics (ICB). ...read full article

November 14, 2009

The Cyberwar Plan

It's not just a defensive game; cyber-security includes attack plans too, and the U.S. has already used some of them successfully.

In May 2007, President Bush authorized the National Security Agency, based at Fort Meade, Md., to launch a sophisticated attack on an enemy thousands of miles away without firing a bullet or dropping a bomb. ...read full article

November 14, 2009

Job search scams: Protect yourself against identity theft

Identity theft rings have set their sights on the people who are unemployed and looking for work. Here's how to ensure you don't end up a victim.

As unemployment has increased, so too has the number of job search scams identity theft rings are perpetrating against desperate job seekers. ...read full article

ALEXANDRIA, Va. - The man federal prosecutors called the ringleader of a nationwide identity theft ring has been sentenced to more than 11 years in prison. ...read full article

November 13, 2009

Estonians charged in 'highly sophisticated' hacking case

TALLINN - Five Estonians have been charged in a high-profile computer hacking case that allegedly saw the defendents steal more than 9 million US dollars in just one day. ...read full article

November 13, 2009

Hackers hit Vancouver Schools

Thousands of Vancouver School District employees could be at risk of identity theft after hackers broke into the district's finance system software last week. ...read full article

November 13, 2009

IDG News Service - Cyber-criminals have started preying on Verizon Wireless customers, sending out spam e-mail messages that say their accounts are over the limit and offering them a "balance checker" program to review their payments. ...read full article

November 13, 2009

Teen Decoy a 'Victim' in Sex Offender's Sentencing

CN) - A 14-year-old decoy from an Internet sting operation can be considered a "victim" in sentencing a sex offender as a sexually violent predator, the Colorado Court of Appeals ruled Thursday. ...read full article

November 13, 2009

Weaknesses in CALEA Wiretaps

This week in Chicago, Micah Sherr, Gaurav Shah, Eric Cronin, Sandy Clark, and I have a paper at the ACM Computer and Communications Security Conference (CCS) that's getting a bit more attention than I expected. The paper, Can They Hear Me Now? A Security Analysis of Law Enforcement Wiretaps [pdf] examines the standard "lawful access" protocols used to deliver intercepted telephone (and some Internet) traffic to US law enforcement agencies. Picking up where our 2004 analysis of wireline loop extender wiretaps [pdf] left off, this paper looks at the security and reliability of the latest communications surveillance standards, which were mandated by the 1994 Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA). The standards, it turns out, can leave wiretaps vulnerable to manipulation and denial of service by surveillance targets who employ relatively simple technical countermeasures. ...read full article

Heads up to all Microsoft Windows users: If you’re running Windows 2000, Windows XP or Windows Server 2003, stop what you’re doing and immediately download and apply the MS09-065 update released earlier this week. ...read full article

November 11, 2009

Possible identity theft reported at Mercy

Patient records may have been left accessible

Baltimore police are investigating a security breach at Mercy Medical Center that left an undisclosed number of patient records open to possible identity theft, according to the Maryland attorney general's office. ...read full article

November 11, 2009

THE NSW government plans to create three new identity offences - trafficking in identity data, possession with intent to commit a crime, and possession of equipment for the purpose of identity theft - in an overhaul of the state's Crimes Act. ...read full article

November 11, 2009

Woman gets probation for ID theft that netted her free power from PPL

A medical assistant who stole personal information from patients and a co-worker and used it to get free power from PPL has been placed on two years' probation. ...read full article

November 11, 2009

Drawing Security-Spooked Customers Into the E-Commerce Fold

There's a huge base of potential customers online every day who look but don't buy. ...read full article

It has spent hundreds of millions of dollars trying to take on Google, but Microsoft's Bing search engine was facing embarrassment today, after it emerged that a security loophole could allow users to skim huge sums of money from the system without its knowledge. ...read full article

November 11, 2009

Stolen Laptop Contained Social Security Numbers of Students & Alumni

Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania is notifying current and former students who were enrolled in psychology professor Julie Kontos' classes from spring 2004 through the summer of 2006 about the possible loss of their social security numbers when a laptop was stolen from a campus office. ...read full article

November 11, 2009

Holiday Shopping Brings Identity Theft Warning

BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (WCCO) ? Like falling leaves, decorations hanging from the Mall of America signal a change of seasons. This is a time when holiday gift buyers will grab for the plastic and give it to the clerk. Holiday shopping is well underway. ...read full article

Payroll system compromise imperils workers’ information

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November 10, 2009

Rickroll virus attacks iPhones

An Australian has released a virus for the Apple iPhone, 'ikee', which replaces the infected device's background picture with an image of singer Rick Astley. ...read full article

November 10, 2009

Google fixes risky Chrome bugs

Google has updated its Chrome browser to fix a critical bug that could allow an attacker to execute malicious code on a user's system. ...read full article

November 10, 2009

Pirates get a taste of Microsoft COFEE

Microsoft's Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor (COFEE) software, which helps law enforcement officials grab data from password protected or encrypted sources, has leaked.

Microsoft's Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor (COFEE) has made it into the hands of pirates, and their virtual ships are distributing it quickly for everyone to get a taste. The COFEE application uses common digital forensics tools to help law enforcement officials at the scene of a crime gather volatile evidence of live computer activity that would otherwise be lost in a traditional offline forensic analysis. In other words, it lets officers grab data from password-protected or encrypted sources. That means you can now break the law twice over: download the software and then use it to steal information from other people's computers. ...read full article

November 10, 2009

A botnet that was once responsible for an estimated third of the world's spam has been knocked out of commission thanks to researchers from security firm FireEye. ...read full article

November 10, 2009

Cops: Social Security numbers stolen from Woodbury company

A former employee broke into a Woodbury financial services company, photocopied customers' Social Security numbers and bank reference numbers and took the photocopied data with him when he left, Nassau police said Tuesday. ...read full article

November 9, 2009

A new spam campaign targeting MySpace.com users once again illustrates the blended threat from junk e-mail attacks, experts warn. This latest run tries to lure recipients into giving up their MySpace credentials, and then attempts to trick victims into installing password-stealing malicious software. ...read full article

November 7, 2009

ContactPoint database of 11million children’s details to go ahead despite security fears

Every child in England will have their personal details stored on a controversial database despite fears over security and privacy.

Ministers are pressing ahead with the introduction of ContactPoint to every local authority in the country after claiming that a pilot project has proved a success. ...read full article

November 6, 2009

Chaminade University inadvertently posted confidential information, including Social Security numbers, of thousands of students, on its Web site for months, school officials said today. ...read full article

November 6, 2009

PD: Man stole from health care patients to buy movie tickets

MESA, AZ -- A Banner Health employee has been accused of stealing personal information from hundreds of patients. ...read full article

November 6, 2009

Class Claims Gamer Swiped Phone Numbers

SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - A maker of games for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch collected players' phone numbers without their knowledge, according to a federal class action. The class claims Storm8, creator of "iMobster" and "Vampires Live," wrote its software to collect phone numbers automatically when players download the games. ...read full article

November 6, 2009

New Scams Center On H1N1, Fake IRS Emails

PITTSBURGH (CBS) ? Lately people have been worried about H1N1 flu and when scam artists see that worry, they also see an opportunity to get your cash. ...read full article

November 5, 2009

Men allegedly broke into computers of former employer

Federal authorities on Wednesday filed intrusion charges against two men accused of accessing the computer systems of their former employer. ...read full article

Blue Cross Blue Shield Warns 10,000 NH Providers

CONCORD, N.H. -- Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield is warning 10,000 New Hampshire physicians, dentists and other providers that their Social Security numbers may have been stolen. ...read full article

November 4, 2009

Corporate Breaches Increase Chances Of Consumer ID Theft, Study Says

When their data is leaked by a business, individuals are four times more likely to suffer identity theft, Javelin study says

Consumers who have received data breach notifications within the past year are at a much greater risk for fraud than typical consumers, according to a new study. ...read full article

November 3, 2009

iHacked: jailbroken iPhones compromised, $5 ransom demanded

Yesterday, a “Your iPhone’s been hacked because it’s really insecure! Please visit doiop.com/iHacked and secure your phone right now!” message popped up on the screens of a large number of automatically exploited Dutch iPhone users, demanding $4.95 for instructions on how to secure their iPhones and remove the message from appearing at startup. ...read full article

November 3, 2009

Conficker's first birthday looms - seven million IPs still infected

As Conficker approaches the first anniversary of its appearance in the wild, the Shadowserver Foundation says that at least seven million IP addresses - each representing one or more computers - are now infected by the worm. ...read full article

November 3, 2009

Britons targeted in new online scam

Sellers of high-value products on sites such as eBay and Gumtree are being duped into sending the items without receiving payment

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November 3, 2009

Microsoft Warns Online Gamers Of Worm Attacks

Online gamers are the target of a "pervasive" computer worm which steals personal data, Microsoft has warned ...read full article

Symantec is warning about a new Trojan horse that encrypts files on compromised computers but offers no ransom note like other software designed to hold data hostage for a fee. ...read full article

November 2, 2009

Bank IT Worker Charged In $1.1 Million Fraud

A computer technician has been indicted for stealing the identities of 150 Bank of New York employees, as well as for grand larceny and money laundering.

Adeniyi Adeyemi, 27, of Brooklyn, New York, was charged last week in a 149-count indictment for allegedly using his position as a computer technician to steal the identities of over 150 employees of the Bank of New York Mellon and to subsequently defraud charities, non-profits, and other organizations for more than $1.1 million over an eight year period. ...read full article

November 2, 2009

FTC allows eight more months for Red Flags compliance

The Federal Trade Commission again is pushing back the deadline for financial institutions and creditors to comply with the Red Flags Rules. ...read full article

October 30, 2009

Parma: FBI seeking Ukrainians who bought illegal IDs

PARMA -- Hundreds of Ukrainian immigrants who fraudulently obtained Ohio drivers licenses in Parma are being encouraged to contact the FBI before agents come after them. ...read full article

A former state Department of Revenue employee was arrested Tuesday on charges she used stolen credit card information to buy personal items at Walmart and other stores in East Baton Rouge and Ascension parishes, Louisiana State Police said. ...read full article

Official: Attack was aimed at obtaining information on ministry’s network ...read full article

October 26, 2009

Smartphone security threats likely to rise

Worms, spam, viruses and hackers -- they're not just for your desktop or laptop anymore. According to internet security experts they could be well on their way into your pocket or purse. ...read full article

October 26, 2009

CalOptima says data on 68,000 members may be compromised

Privacy Still Dogs Electronic Health Records

New study highlights security shortcomings with the ways medical facilities are digitizing patients' records.

Beginning with the February economic stimulus package, the Obama administration has made it clear that the digitization of medical records is a high priority. But converting people's most sensitive personal information into the digital format inevitably brings privacy concerns in tow, and a new study has called attention to just how significant the challenge may be. ...read full article

October 19, 2009

ChoicePoint to Pay Fine for Second Data Breach

Data broker ChoicePoint, the victim of a 2004 data breach affecting more than 160,000 U.S. residents, has agreed to strengthen its data security efforts and pay a fine for a second breach in 2008, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said Monday. ...read full article

October 19, 2009

A 52-year-old Shakopee man pleaded guilty Friday in federal court to one count of aggravated identity theft and one count of wire fraud in connection with a scheme to defraud a loan company. ...read full article

October 16, 2009

Lancaster police seek woman for credit card theft

Lancaster police have released surveillance photos of a woman who apparently used stolen credit cards to steal $7,500 worth of cash and prepaid credit cards three weeks ago. ...read full article

October 15, 2009

Data on 103,000 Students Misplaced

A flash drive containing the personal information of more than 103,000 former adult education students in Virginia was misplaced last month, state education officials reported Wednesday. ...read full article

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has vetoed an update to California's landmark data-breach notification law, saying that the new bill would be too hard on businesses without adequately benefiting consumers. ...read full article

A botnet designed to facilitate click fraud is defrauding advertisers and denying potential revenue to Google and other search engines. The "Bahama botnet," a collection of thousands of compromised computers that has been defrauding online advertisers lately, has also been stealing revenue from Google (NSDQ: GOOG). Read more….. ...read full article

October 6, 2009

Microsoft Blocks Hacked Hotmail Accounts

Phishing scam may also have breached e-mail services offered by Google and Yahoo.

Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has taken the extraordinary step of blocking all access to thousands of Hotmail e-mail accounts that were compromised as a result of massive Internet phishing scam. ...read full article

October 6, 2009

A Look at Stolen Hotmail Data Finds Simple Passwords

1234567 may not be a very secure password, but it's popular on Hotmail. That's according to Bogdan Calin, a security researcher who got hold of 10,000 stolen Windows Live Hotmail usernames and passwords that were posted to the Web site PasteBin late last week. ...read full article

October 6, 2009

House weighs bill protecting accidental P2P data leaks

The U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee has passed a bill intended to prevent inadvertent disclosure of information on peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing programs. ...read full article

October 5, 2009

Identity theft, lack of regulation spur home health group to require employee background checks

Amid growing concerns over safety, the Michigan Home Health Agency is developing plans to require staff qualifications, training and criminal background checks for all home-health providers in Michigan, according to local news items. ...read full article

Stolen laptop had doctors’ tax IDs

The largest health insurer in Massachusetts is warning roughly 39,000 physicians and other health care providers in the state that personal information, including Social Security numbers, may have been compromised after a laptop containing the data was stolen in August from an employee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association’s national headquarters in Chicago. ...read full article

October 2, 2009

Beware Hijacked Social Networking Accounts, FBI Warns

Social networking sites are becoming a more popular attack vector for cybercriminals because people trust those they believe to be friends.

Think twice before wiring money to help a Facebook friend who claims to be in trouble in a foreign country. Marking the commencement of National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Thursday warned that there's been an increase in hijacked social networking accounts and that cybercriminals are using these accounts to defraud victims' friends. ...read full article

October 1, 2009

Payroll services firm PayChoice breached

Hackers recently launched a sophisticated scam in which they breached a payroll services vendor and used the information obtained to craft targeted messages aimed at getting customers to download an information stealing trojan. ...read full article

(CNN) -- The 2010 Census is nearly under way, but don't expect an e-mail from the U.S. Census Bureau asking you personal questions in its head count of America. ...read full article

September 29, 2009

Second city man arrested in ID fraud

Feds: 2 used DUI reports to get vital info

A second Lancaster County man has been charged by the U.S. Department of Justice in an identity-theft scheme that targeted DUI offenders in Lancaster and York counties. ...read full article

September 29, 2009

Recycling project a security breach at MUN

A project intended to reuse paper from campus offices at Memorial University of Newfoundland has accidentally breached some students' privacy. ...read full article

September 29, 2009

Mastic Beach woman charged with identity theft

A Mastic Beach former mortgage broker who owned an employment agency has been charged with identity theft after she used client information to run several scams, police said. ...read full article

September 29, 2009

Cop accused of tip line cash theft to stand trial

A Detroit Police Officer accused of stealing more than $26,000 in reward money from a police tip line stood silently in 16th District Court in Livonia this morning as a judge ordered his case to circuit court. ...read full article

2007 identity theft aftermath continues to be felt in Delaware

Suspecting fraud, WSFS issues new bank cards

Months after a hacker pulled off the largest identity theft in U.S. history, the aftermath is still being felt in Delaware, where the case has prompted one local bank to deactivate and reissue debit cards for some of its customers. ...read full article

September 25, 2009

Mail carrier pleads guilty to federal theft charges

Carey woman says she had drug habit

Marsha Billock-Strahm told a federal judge Thursday she wasn't being nosy when she stole select pieces of mail she was supposed to have delivered in rural Wyandot County between 2005 and 2009. ...read full article

September 25, 2009

Illegal faces federal ID theft charges

Juan Castro was originally picked up by Eastern Adams Regional Police on driving offenses.

An illegal alien from Mexico picked up in June by Eastern Adams Regional Police now faces federal identity-theft charges, according to a press release issued Thursday by the U.S. Attorney's office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania. ...read full article

September 24, 2009

Protect Your Privacy on Facebook and Twitter

September 18, 2009

Scam targets veterans' credit card info, VA warns

(CNN) -- Watch out for the latest scam targeting veterans and their credit card numbers, the Department of Veterans Affairs warns. ...read full article

September 18, 2009

PBS' Curious George site hacked to serve malware

The website for the popular children's television show "Curious George" was compromised this week to serve malware to visitors, according to researchers at web security vendor Purewire. ...read full article

September 17, 2009

On the Lookout for Stimulus Fraud

It would not ordinarily go down in the annals of crime. But when Robert Fitzsimmons was arrested this summer and accused of cashing a check made out to his long-dead father at a Pay-O-Matic check cashing store in Manhattan, he became one of the first people in the country accused of stealing some of the $787 billion in federal stimulus money. ...read full article

September 17, 2009

Misdirected Spyware Infects Ohio Hospital

It was a bad idea from the start, but even as bad ideas go, this one went horribly wrong. A 38-year-old Avon Lake, Ohio, man is set to plead guilty to federal charges after spyware he allegedly meant to install on the computer of a woman he'd had a relationship with ended up infecting computers at Akron Children's Hospital. ...read full article

September 16, 2009

Ex-CTA employee gets 4 years for identity theft

An ex-CTA employee was sentenced to 4 years in prison today for stealing the personal information of customers to buy merchandise from local department stores, according to the Cook County state's attorney's office. ...read full article

September 16, 2009

Consumers Accept Device Fingerprinting, Study Finds

To fight online fraud, consumers are warming to the idea of technology that identifies the device they're using.

Computer users are willing to accept device profiling if it leads to improved security and less sharing of personal information, according to a study conducted by the Ponemon Institute, an independent privacy research organization. ...read full article

September 15, 2009

4 Charged With Identity Theft Ring

Alleged Ringleader, Robert Lyles, Arrested At Business

HOUSTON -- Four people have been arrested and charged with running a counterfeit check and fake identity ring that used hundreds of stolen IDs and had nearly 200 customers of the service. ...read full article

September 15, 2009

Identity Theft Suspect Sought

Police Looking For Jeanice Gallegos Juarez

SAN ANTONIO -- A $1,000 reward was being offered for information leading to the arrest of a woman wanted on charges of identity theft. ...read full article

September 14, 2009

Identity-theft victim catches her thief

A Seattle customer service representative who was the victim of identity theft in January was able to help police break up a ring of ID thieves when a woman tried to open a credit card account using her stolen identity. ...read full article

September 14, 2009

Serena Williams meltdown is latest poisoned search attack

Video of tennis star Serena Williams imploding Saturday in the U.S. Open women's semifinals is just the latest search term to be poisoned by attackers wanting to infect users with rogue anti-virus software, researchers said Monday. ...read full article

A doctors' receptionist has admitted to stealing bank account information from patients as part of an identity theft ring that ensnared Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke as a victim. ...read full article

September 9, 2009

Trust, but let Google verify: Companies join government in identity authentication experiment

OpenID, Information Card announce Web 2.0 initiative with feds

September 8, 2009

Website exposes sensitive details on military personnel

Programming errors on a website that helps commuters carpool to work are exposing sensitive information of workers for hundreds of employers in Southern California, including at least one military installation. ...read full article

September 8, 2009

Thousands of Patients Affected By Hospital Burglary

Kern Medical Center Sends Out Notices To 30,000 Patients

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. -- A small burglary has left major problems for Kern Medical Center. That's because someone stole the personal information of thousands of people. ...read full article

State officials fear the unsolicited computers could contain malware meant to penetrate the security of state or federal networks.

The FBI is investigating why unsolicited laptops have been sent to 10 governors' offices across the nation. The shipments have spurred cybersecurity concerns. ...read full article

September 3, 2009

Police: FAU Student Stole Identity To Save Tuition

Former Student Accused Of Stealing Woman's Social Security Number

BOCA RATON, Fla. -- A former Florida Atlantic University student faces years in prison after police said she stole someone's identity to save money on college costs. ...read full article

September 1, 2009

Suspect in ID-theft ring that hit Bernanke's wife arrested in Miami-Dade

A woman accused of involvement in a major theft ring that targeted the wife of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke was arrested Monday night in Miami-Dade County by U.S. marshals. ...read full article

September 1, 2009

Recorded telemarketing calls without written permission now illegal

You soon may be hearing a lot fewer of those maddening pre-recorded telephone pitches for everything from car insurance to debt consolidation services. ...read full article

September 1, 2009

Instant messaging speeds up data theft danger

IDG News Service - One of the more sophisticated pieces of malware in circulation has been given an upgrade that lets cybercriminals act even faster after they've stolen data from a PC. ...read full article

August 31, 2009

SCAM ALERT: Unofficial web sites for DMV registration renewal

ONEIDA COUNTY, N.Y. (WKTV) - Oneida County residents are asked to be on the alert regarding a web site that appears to renew vehicle registrations, but is, in fact, not connected with state or county government offices. ...read full article

August 31, 2009

Woman Finds Social Security Number in Google Search

Harrisburg, Pa. - The Internet is a great tool for researching what kind of scholarships are available. But if you receive a scholarship, the Web can also be a threat to your identity. ...read full article

August 31, 2009

Women accused of using data on co-workers, job applicants

An alert mail carrier’s suspicions led to charges that two Milwaukee women stole personal information from job applicants and workers at a store one of the women managed and used it to commit identity theft. ...read full article

August 20, 2009

Identity-Theft Malware Flourishes during Economic Downturn, According to PandaLabs

Of the 37,000 new viruses, worms, Trojans and other security threats that appear each day, 71 percent are Trojans, mostly designed for identity theft

GLENDALE, Calif., Aug. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Panda Security, the Cloud Security Company, today announced that PandaLabs, the company's laboratory for detecting and analyzing malware, has discovered that the number of users affected by malware designed for identity theft has increased 600 percent this year compared to the same time in 2008. Most of these variants are Trojans, with many incidents of phishing, worms, and spyware. ...read full article

August 20, 2009

Radisson Hotels Computers Compromised

A hacker appears to have had access to guest information at a limited number of hotels for several months.

Radisson Hotels & Resorts' chief operating officer Fredrik Korallus on Wednesday said in an open letter to company customers that the computer systems at some Radisson hotels in the U.S. and Canada had been accessed illegally. ...read full article

August 19, 2009

Facebook Security: Inside a Hacker Chat

Below is the transcript of a real Facebook Chat conversation between a savvy user, Derek, and a scammer who has gained access to Derek's friend's account and is trying to trick Derek out of money. ...read full article

August 10, 2009

Mexican Drug Trafficker Convicted of Aggravated Identity Theft

LAREDO, TX—Mexican citizen Jose Guadalupe Ramirez Ortiz, 33, has been convicted of falsely claiming to be a U.S. citizen and committing aggravated identity theft during his attempted illegal entry into the country earlier this year, United States Attorney Tim Johnson announced today. Ortiz pleaded guilty to both federal offenses today before United States Magistrate Judge Diana Saldaña. ...read full article

August 9, 2009

7 Expensive Mistakes College Students Make

Every August, millions of parents nationwide load up minivans and head out to drop off their high school grads at college. But while college freshman may be academically prepared for school, they often still have a lot to learn when it comes to managing money. Most new college students have little to no experience handling money on their own, and they end up paying dearly for that inexperience by making costly mistakes. Here we look at some of the most common money mistakes college students make, and provide some tips on how to mitigate or avoid them. ...read full article

August 5, 2009

Man Charged With Web Name Theft, Sale on eBay

Daniel Goncalves, 25, who works for an online research firm, hacked into an online account belonging to one of the owners of the P2P.com domain name, New Jersey police said. He allegedly shifted ownership to himself and resold the Web site address on eBay to Mark Madsen, a Los Angeles Clippers forward who did not know the name was stolen. ...read full article

August 5, 2009

Online Scammers Prey on the Jobless

When Claude Vera responded to the customer-service job opening he saw on the online-classified site Geebo.com back in February, it seemed like one of a hundred small acts that might get him back to work. Most of his e-mail messages to prospective employers were going unanswered, so he was relieved when Penguin Express Inc. replied the next day with a work-from-home job. ...read full article

Computer hackers attacked the website of intelligence agency MI5 in an apparent bid to steal the identities of web users, according to a report that will embarrass security officials.

The security breach could also have enabled the hackers to download viruses onto the machines of anyone using the organization’s website, the Daily Express reported. ...read full article

July 30, 2009

Ghanaian man wanted for identity theft in US

A Ghanaian man is wanted by the Kitty Hawk police in Dare County, North Carolina, USA for alleged identity theft. ...read full article

July 30, 2009

Oregon victim of 35-year ID theft 'elated' at arrest

An Oregon man who was the victim of a 35-year-long identity theft case says he's so happy about an arrest in the case that he could kiss the special agent who handled it. ...read full article

July 30, 2009

iPhone vulnerable to hacker attacks: researchers

LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Security experts have uncovered flaws in Apple Inc's iPhone that they said hackers can exploit to take control of the popular device, using the tactic for identity theft and other crimes. ...read full article

July 30, 2009

DoD Official Says U.S. Needs Separate Cyberczar For Online Identity

Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Robert Lentz said a national leader is needed for reducing problems with anonymity on the Net

BLACK HAT USA -- LAS VEGAS -- A top Defense Department official today called for a second national cybersecurity czar dedicated to handling problems and risks associated with anonymity on the Internet. Robert Lentz, who is the deputy assistant secretary of defense for cyber, identity, and information assurance in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense as well as the chief information assurance officer for DoD, in his keynote address here at Black Hat USA told attendees here that identity is at the heart of securing the Internet. ...read full article

July 30, 2009

Man held for identity theft against U.S. Rep.

A man is being held in Ghana on charges of attempted extortion and identity theft against U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler, D-Boca Raton, the U.S. Secret Service said today. ...read full article

July 30, 2009

Black Hat: Clampi banking trojan spreading rapidly

Researchers have identified a new and dangerous banking trojan that can utilize a Windows tool to spread itself to all workstations across an organization. ...read full article

July 29, 2009

‘Red flag’ rule to prevent customer identity theft postponed

Some companies are not certain what rules apply to them or what their obligations are, FTC says

The Federal Trade Commission today delayed until Nov. 1 a rule that would require financial institutions, including investment advisory firms, to have programs to detect and prevent identify theft for their customers. ...read full article

July 29, 2009

A second key figure has now been sentenced in identity and debit card theft scams that targeted the elderly and cost victims over $440,000. ...read full article

July 28, 2009

Former nursing home worker jailed for patient ID theft

READING — A former Kutztown nursing home employee was sentenced to nine months of house arrest for stealing the identity of an elderly resident who lived at the home. ...read full article

July 27, 2009

Child Identity Theft Victims

Jason Truxel was denied a mortgage because of bad credit. However he wasn’t aware his credit scores were low so he pulled his credit reports. What he discovered was a tremendous amount of credit card debit and accounts he never opened. One such account showed that a credit card was opened in his name when he was 13 years old. Jason learned the hard way that he was a victim of child identity theft. ...read full article

July 27, 2009

Woman charged with identity theft

A Jacksonville woman has been charged with identity theft, according to a news release from Sheriff Todd Entrekin. ...read full article

July 9, 2009

Identity Theft – Phishing Scam

The Oshkosh Police Department and the Wisconsin Department of Justice are urging folks to be on guard against a recent phishing scam that has recently appeared in Wisconsin. Recently, the Department of Justice received reports of people calling homes and cell phones in an attempt to gain personal information. ...read full article

July 6, 2009

Carnegie Mellon Researchers Find Social Security Numbers Can Be Predicted from Publicly Available Information

Carnegie Mellon University researchers have shown that public information readily gleaned from governmental sources, commercial data bases, or online social networks can be used to routinely predict most — and sometimes all — of an individual's nine-digit Social Security number. ...read full article

July 6, 2009

New York Warns Agents on Identity Theft Scam

New York State licensed insurance agents and brokers should be aware of an identity theft scam involving telephone calls used to target insurance professionals in at least a half dozen states. ...read full article

June 24, 2009

Security Breach Leaves 45,000 at Risk of Identity Theft

On Tuesday Cornell informed more than 45,000 current and former members of the University community that their sensitive personal information — including name and social security number — had been exposed when a University-owned laptop was stolen earlier this month. ...read full article

June 23, 2009

Miami group charged in $100 million Medicare fraud

A band of conspirators in Miami defrauded the U.S. healthcare system by creating phony clinics that churned out $100 million of medical bills in five states, federal prosecutors said on Tuesday, June 23. ...read full article

June 22, 2009

Member of identity theft ring sentenced to prison

A 27-year-old woman was sentenced today to three years and four months in prison for her part in an identity theft ring, according to a Sacramento County District Attorney's Office news release. ...read full article

June 18, 2009

Corporate Takeover

A New Twist on Identity Theft

Late last month, we helped wrap up a case that took identity theft to a whole new level: one company trying to steal $23 million by pretending to be another company. ...read full article

June 12, 2009

Medical Problems Could Include Identity Theft

Brandon Sharp, a 37-year-old manager at an oil and gas company in Houston, has never had any real health problems and, luckily, he has never stepped foot in an emergency room. So imagine his surprise a few years ago when he learned he owed thousands of dollars worth of emergency-service medical bills. ...read full article

June 4, 2009

Peabody Man Indicted for Identity Theft and Bank Fraud

BOSTON, MA—A Peabody man was charged today in federal court with stealing bank customer identities to fraudulently withdraw bank funds. ...read full article

June 1, 2009

Maryland Woman Pleads Guilty to Theft of Public Money and Aggravated Identity Theft

Defendant fraudulently obtained more than $77,000 in unemployment compensation by using social security numbers of other individuals

WASHINGTON—A 43-year-old Bowie, Maryland woman, Rhonda Dale Robinson, has pled guilty to one count of Theft of Public Money and two counts of Aggravated Identity Theft, Acting U.S. Attorney Channing D. Phillips; Charles Willoughby, Inspector General of the District of Columbia Office of the Inspector General (D.C. OIG); Joseph Persichini, Jr., Assistant Director in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) Washington Field Office; and Gordon S. Heddell, Inspector General of the Office of the Inspector General, U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), announced today. ...read full article

May 27, 2009

Eighteen charged in NY bank fraud, ID theft scheme

Prosecutors in New York said on Wednesday they have indicted 18 people for operating a bank fraud and identity theft scheme that resulted in the cashing of more than 1,000 counterfeit checks at several large banks. ...read full article

May 27, 2009

Guilty Pleas in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to Fraud and Identity Theft Charges

BATON ROUGE, LA—United States Attorney David R. Dugas announced today that ROBERT THOMPSON, the leader of a massive identity theft and bribery scheme, pled guilty this afternoon before Chief U.S. District Court Judge Ralph E. Tyson to charges of conspiracy, wire fraud, mail fraud, bank fraud, computer fraud, access device fraud, aggravated identity theft, money laundering, and obstruction of justice. One of his co-conspirators, CHARLENE B. JACKSON, also pled guilty this afternoon before Judge Tyson to conspiracy to commit wire fraud, mail fraud, and money laundering. ...read full article

May 22, 2009

Former Bank Teller Pleads Guilty to Identity Theft

PHILADELPHIA—Lauren W. Arnold, 21, of Philadelphia, pleaded guilty today to stealing the identifying information of Wachovia Bank customers while she worked there as a teller, in 2008, announced United States Attorney Laurie Magid. Arnold sold the customer names, addresses, social security numbers, dates of birth, drivers’ license numbers, and account balances, to a third party. The third party enlisted others and the information was used to negotiate fraudulent checks in the customers’ names and to make unauthorized withdrawals from the customers’ accounts. Arnold pleaded guilty to conspiracy and aggravated identity theft. The total intended loss to Wachovia Bank was over $270,000. ...read full article

May 19, 2009

Don't let ID thieves hijack your job hunt

Scammers increasingly are targeting job seekers; here are 6 ways to protect yourself.

Let's say you've been job hunting for months now, and applied to so many employers you're starting to lose track of them all. One day you get a call from someone in HR at a well-known company. He found your resume on an online job board, thinks it's very impressive, and is looking forward to meeting you, he says. To set up the interview, he asks for your home address, date of birth and Social Security number. Odds are, you give him the information, even if it seems a bit strange. After all, this person could end up offering you a job, and you don't want to seem difficult to work with. And odds are, you'll never hear from him again, or the company he claimed to represent -- but, within a day or two, he'll have opened half a dozen credit cards in your name, maxed them out, and created an enormous mess it could take you years to straighten out. ...read full article

May 12, 2009

Cops: Sales clerk surrenders in credit-card number thefts

A 22-year-old sales clerk turned herself in to Sheriff's personnel after purchasing more than $15,000 with stolen credit card numbers, according to a Sacramento County Sheriff's Department news release. ...read full article

May 11, 2009

ATMs on Staten Island rigged for identity theft; bandits steal $500G

A band of brazen thieves ripped off hundreds of New Yorkers by rigging ATMs to steal account and password information from bank customers. ...read full article

May 11, 2009

Dublin man gets house arrest for theft scheme

A Dublin man who was a high-school senior when he was arrested in an identity-theft scheme was sentenced to six months of house arrest and three years of probation in U.S. District Court in Beckley, W.Va., today. ...read full article

May 1, 2009

East Boston Man Sentenced in Identity Theft, Credit Card Fraud Ring

Boston, MA—An East Boston man was sentenced yesterday for his role in a scheme to steal credit cards from health club locker rooms and take more than $350,000 in cash advances at horse race tracks in at least 10 states. ...read full article

April 29, 2009

Former Fed Employee Arrested for Stealing Co-worker Identities

Allegedly used info for student loans

Last week, federal authorities arrested Curtis L. Wiltshire, a former IT analyst for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (FRB-NY), for stealing bank employees’ identities to fraudulently obtain student loans. His brother Kenneth Wiltshire was arrested separately for attempting to obtain a boat loan using identities stolen from federal workers, according to a Department of Justice release. ...read full article

April 27, 2009

San Francisco Man Sentenced for Role in Identity Theft

SAN FRANCISCO—James Linville was sentenced Friday to 45 months in prison for assuming the identity of another person and possessing more than 15 credit cards in that person’s name, United States Attorney Joseph P. Russoniello announced. ...read full article

April 1, 2009

FBI: Thousands of Puerto Ricans victims of ID theft

As many as 12,000 Puerto Rican schoolchildren, teachers and school administrators are believed to be victims of an identity-theft ring that sold stolen personal documents to illegal immigrants in the mainland United States, according to the FBI. ...read full article

February 26, 2009

Stillwater Woman Pleads Guilty to Identity Theft

A 44-year-old Stillwater woman pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court to fraudulently inducing the bank in which she was employed to make mortgage loans to her based on fraudulent documents. ...read full article

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