Alabama State employee Natacia Webster pleaded guilty on Wednesday to stealing identity information from inmates while working for the state and to providing that information to a co-conspirator who used the identities to file false tax returns. The Montgomery resident who worked for the Alabama Department of Corrections pleaded guilty to wire fraud, to aggravated […]
A federal jury on Thursday found a St. Louis Park man guilty for his role in a large, multi-state identity theft ring that operated from 2006 through 2011. Joel Delano Powell, Jr, 46, was convicted of seven counts of bank fraud, five counts of aggravated identity theft and one count of conspiracy to commit bank […]
Internet marketing giant Epsilon suffered a major data breach over the weekend, as names and email addresses were stolen in a series of hacking attacks affecting at least 19 of its client companies. In a statement to its clients, Epsilon assured that highly sensitive information had not been stolen by hackers. “The information that was […]
Stancy Nesby was pulled over for speeding, arrested and jailed for 3 days on mistaken identity. It happens that a judge issued a warrant for Stacy Nesby’s arrest after another woman arrested for cocaine possession gave Stacy’s name to the judge and then skipped her court date. The surprising issue with this mistaken identity case […]
The New York Times reports that bogus and stolen accounts on Facebook are being sold in high volume on the black market. During several weeks in February, VeriSign’s iDefense division tracked an effort to sell log-in data for 1.5 million Facebook accounts on several online criminal marketplaces, including one called Carder.su. That hacker, who used […]
Not too long ago, I made a disturbing discovery. I received a statement in the mail for a department store credit card that I hadn’t authorized, and noticed a shipping address that was not my own. My name was listed on the bill, and my home address was recorded as the billing address – but […]
Federal prosecutors this week charged a Southern California woman with aggravated identity theft and other crimes for allegedly using a popular genealogy research website to locate people who had recently died, and then taking over their credit cards. Tracy June Kirkland, 42, allegedly used Rootsweb.com to find the names, Social Security numbers and birth dates […]
A computer intrusion into a Citibank server that processes ATM withdrawals led to two Brooklyn men making hundreds of fraudulent withdrawals from New York City cash machines in February, pocketing at least $750,000 in cash, according to federal prosecutors. The ATM crime spree is apparently the first to be publicly linked to the breach of […]
When you hear stories that involve identity theft between a woman and her nanny, one would normally draw the conclusion that the nanny is stealing from the mother. Most likely visions of Rebecca De Mornay and scenes from Hand that Rocks the Cradle flash through your head. This time it was the nanny who was […]
If ever there were living proof that identity theft can strike the mighty and powerful as well as hapless consumers, look no further than the nation’s chief banker: Ben Bernanke. The Federal Reserve Board chairman was one of hundreds of victims of an elaborate identity-fraud ring, headed by a convicted scam artist known as “Big […]