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The Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) charged Brandon Lee Price from Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, with bank fraud after he convinced Citibank employees to send him the debit card of Paul Allen, Microsoft’s co-founder. Threat Level reports that the suspect called Citibank on January 9 and impersonated Allen, c... |
28 March 2012
04:56 GMT |
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Attorney General Kamala D. Harris recently presented the California Department of Justice’s new unit, purposed to investigate and prosecute technology crimes. The eCrime Unit will rely on the latest innovations to make sure the number of cyberfraud incidents will drop.
“Today's criminals increasingl... |
15 December 2011
05:12 GMT |
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Restaurant Depot and Jetro customers are being officially informed that the company recently fell victim to a hacking operation and all their customers’ credit cards information may have fallen into the hands of profit-driven cybercriminals.
During the period between September 21 and November 18, 2011, unautho... |
12 December 2011
09:45 GMT |
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The University of California, Riverside reported that the cash registers from food services were exploited by a cybercriminal who may have gained access to information from 5,000 credit cards. An official statement on UCR’s official website reveals that card numbers, cardholder names, expiration dates and an e... |
30 November 2011
10:39 GMT |
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Police investigators discovered that fraudsters started relying on carefully placed gadgets that utilize rat glue to trap cash while it’s being redrawn from automated teller machines. Since banks began implementing better security solutions that prevent crooks from installing skimming devices, they started usi... |
28 November 2011
04:44 GMT |
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A number of 20 supermarkets from Modesto, California, operating under the Save Mart Supermarket brand were discovered to use credit card readers that were altered to function as skimming devices.
The Modesto Bee reports that a routine maintenance process revealed that 19 Lucky stores and one Save Mart store were inv... |
25 November 2011
10:56 GMT |
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New South Wales Police representatives recently admitted to be using online hacking forums to find materials that can be highly useful in identifying and apprehending those who commit credit card fraud.
Everyone is well aware of the fact that identities are sold like warm bread on underground forums and since the ph... |
24 November 2011
08:00 GMT |
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A McDonald's employee in Oak Park stole the credit card details belonging to 100 of the establishment's customers by using a hand-held skimming device, which she used just outside the view of the victims. Detroit Free Press reports that Teresa Pulliam was discovered stealing the information after a store m... |
17 November 2011
10:03 GMT |
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Members of five criminal groups and their accomplices are indicted by a Queens county court for allegedly stealing $13 million (€9.1 million) in a period of less than two years, mostly by copying the credit cards of unsuspecting victims.
According to Wired, the main operation started at regular employees of r... |
11 October 2011
03:20 GMT |
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A study shows that 40,000 small and medium-sized companies in Australia have inadequate security measures implemented into their bank transaction mechanisms.
In an interview given to SC Magazine by Visa's country risk manager, Ian McKindley reveals that most smaller companies have close to none security polic... |
23 September 2011
08:16 GMT |
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The Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) arrested four alleged hackers suspected of being members of a credit card fraud gang, responsible for damages of over $20 million.
The four suspects are believed to have hacked into computer systems belonging to Ukrainian and international financial institutions from where they... |
23 August 2011
07:07 GMT |
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A 26-year-old man from Brooklyn, New York, admitted to instrumenting a credit card fraud operation that resulted in fraudulent charges totaling over $770,000.Jonathan Oliveras, 26, pleaded guilty in the Eastern District Court of Virginia on Wednesday to one count of wire fraud and one of aggravated identity theft.Acc... |
11 August 2011
06:04 GMT |
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A Tennessee man who previously took credit for leaking indecent photos of Miley Cyrus in 2008 agreed to plead guilty to charges of credit card fraud and computer hacking.Joshua Holly, 21, of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, was arrested and charged with the crimes back in January. He was released on bail, but ordered not to ... |
2 August 2011
05:02 GMT |
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A Georgia man who used to be in the business of trafficking stolen credit cards was sentenced to ten years in prison on Friday. His actions are said to have caused losses of $36 million.Rogelio Hackett, Jr., 26, was arrested in 2009 after being identified as one of the sellers of stolen credit card details on undergr... |
25 July 2011
01:04 GMT |
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A fake news story claiming F-Secure chief research officer Mikko Hypponen and investigative security journalist Brian Krebs were indicted on credit card fraud charges made its way online yesterday.The story was published on fraud-news.com and then made its way to Twitter. "I called Brian up. He had already seen the a... |
13 June 2011
11:56 GMT |
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Following the massive data breach that led to the shutdown of Sony's PlayStation Network (PSN), some customers have begun reporting credit card fraud, although most of these reports are likely not related to the incident.Two days ago Sony finally revealed the reason why the PSN has been offline since April 20 an... |
28 April 2011
04:10 GMT |
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A California man was sentenced to seven years in prison for his activity as the leader of a credit card fraud ring that stole over $100,000 from eighteen financial institutions.Jonathan Edward Vergnetti, 39, of Alhambra, CA, was arrested along with five other co-conspirators back in May 2010 after obtaining multiple ... |
11 February 2011
11:58 GMT |
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A series of fraudulent credit card charges tracked back to a Mandeville McDonald's restaurant led authorities to a fraud ring in an investigation that resulted in six arrests so far.The operation began in the summer of last year, when 19-year-old McDonald's employee Todd Pea Jr., of Lacombe, was recruited i... |
7 February 2011
11:58 GMT |
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The Manhattan District Attorney announced that 27 people have been indicted for offences in connection to cybercriminal operations that involved purchasing electronic equipment from Apple Stores across the country using counterfeit credit cards.One identity theft ring was allegedly ran as a family business by a man n... |
2 February 2011
12:52 GMT |
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A Beverly Hills esthetician with an A-list clientele has agreed to plead guilty to credit card fraud after racking up fraudulent charges on the cards of her customers.The New York Post reports that Maria Gabriela Hashemipour (formerly Maria Gabriela Perez), 51, a skin care specialist who owns a private beauty studio ... |
21 January 2011
10:39 GMT |
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The teenager who took credit for hacking into Miley Cyrus' Gmail account and leaking risque photos of the underage actress was arrested last week for possession of unauthorized credit card information with intention to defraud.According to the criminal complaint [pdf], Joshua Holly has been investigated by the F... |
6 January 2011
07:58 GMT |
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Australian authorities have arrested five men suspected to be members of a fraud gang that used false identifies and counterfeit credit cards to buy goods valued at over $1 million.The Age reports that over 70 police officers executed search warrants on Wednesday at multiple residences in New South Wales (NSW) and So... |
10 December 2010
04:59 GMT |
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Shell Vacations, a company that operates a chain of resorts across the United States, Canada, and Mexico, is currently investigating a possible security breach that resulted in credit card details being compromised.An announcement posted on the Shell Vacations Hospitality and Shell Vacations Club websites, the compan... |
2 December 2010
05:40 GMT |
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A Nigerian national extradited to US in June was sentenced to 102 months in prison for fraudulently acquiring thousands of airline tickets using stolen credit card details and reselling them for profit.Ademola Ismaila Adegoke, 43, of Accra, Ghana, was arrested on May 5 by the Ghanian police, following an investigatio... |
25 October 2010
04:58 GMT |
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Seven people were arrested in Vancouver last week under suspicion of being members of an identity theft gang, that bought items from online auction sites using stolen credit card details.An investigation was launched by the Combined Forces Identity Theft Team (CFITT) of the Surrey Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP)... |
25 October 2010
02:27 GMT |
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A $200,000 credit card fraud is suspected to have resulted from hackers compromising the Point-of-Sale (POS) system at a Florida restaurant with malware specifically designed for it.Dave Wendland, the owner of Julie's Place, a Tallahassee eating house dating back to 1978, began learning from his customers of fra... |
28 September 2010
12:54 GMT |
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A California man was sentenced to 72 months in prison for helping credit card fraudsters launder $2.5 million dollars between 2004 and 2006.The Department of Justice announced the sentencing of Cesar Carranza, 38, a resident of Long Beach, California, for his role in multiple money laundering operations on Thursday.A... |
18 September 2010
02:10 GMT |
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Two Jamaicans arrested last week under suspicion of ATM fraud are the first persons charged for offenses under the country's cybercriminal legislation.In order to combat a significant rise in electronic crimes in the country, last December the Jamaican legislators passed the Cyber Crimes Act.The law provides cri... |
7 September 2010
04:49 GMT |
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The Federal Trade Commission has halted the operations of an international identity theft ring that managed to fly under the radar for years. The scheme involved charging the credit cards of over a million consumers with amounts less than $10 and using dummy companies to route the payments.The fraudsters used stolen ... |
29 June 2010
06:54 GMT |
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Albert Gonzales, the most prolific credit card thief in history, was sentenced to twenty years in a federal prison yesterday. The sentence is only for the 2005 attacks against TJX, Office Max, Barnes & Noble, Dave & Busters and a few other retailers; however, the hacker is also awaiting sentencing in a different case... |
26 March 2010
10:28 GMT |
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Viktor Pleshchuk, one of the hackers indicted last year in the RBS WorldPay cyberheist case, was arrested by authorities in Russia. The Financial Times reports that he was apprehended along with several other suspects by the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB).RBS WorldPay is a large payment proc... |
23 March 2010
11:27 GMT |
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Max Ray Vision, a notorious hacker arrested for stealing the details of millions of credit cards, was sentenced yesterday to 13 years in a federal prison. Mr. Vision's hacking sentence is the longest of its kind ever to be recorded in the United States.Max Ray Vision, 37, of San Francisco, is better known by his... |
13 February 2010
07:15 GMT |
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Stephen Watt, a 25-year-old software developer, was sentenced to two years in a federal prison for the role he played in the TJX hit, one of the largest credit card thefts in history. The programmer was also ordered to pay the company $171.5 million in restitution for the harm caused.The man befriended notorious hack... |
28 December 2009
10:05 GMT |
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The Romanian authorities are undergoing a massive effort to dismantle cybercriminal groups operating in the country. During the last ten days, two series of arrests and raids related to credit-card fraud were performed in major Romanian cities. On September 9, the Romanian Direction for Investigating Organized Crime... |
18 September 2009
08:49 GMT |
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The New York County District Attorney's Office announced that five Eastern Europeans were indicted for dealing in stolen credit cards and other crimes that resulted in $4 million being lost to fraud. International authorities arrested three of them in 2008 and were recently extradited to US.Viatcheslav Vasilyev,... |
3 September 2009
09:52 GMT |
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Notorious Israeli hacker Ehud Tenenbaum, a.k.a. "The Analyzer," has pleaded guilty to one count of access-device fraud in New York after he was indicted by the U.S. authorities for credit card fraud last October. He faces a maximum of 15 years in a federal prison and his sentencing is scheduled for November 19.Ehud T... |
26 August 2009
09:08 GMT |
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India's central bank, called the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), has released new mandatory guidelines for the way online credit card transactions are processed, requiring the implementation of an additional verification system based on cardholder details not available on the card itself. The Internet & Mobile Asso... |
17 July 2009
07:51 GMT |
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Three brothers from Seacole Close, Acton, have been sentenced to prison for cloning credit cards and stealing PIN numbers from ATMs. The three previously pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud charges. Ahmed Charmaga, 25, Mahmoud Charmaga, 23, and Mohammed Charmaga, 28, were running their illegal operation from an ... |
17 July 2009
05:19 GMT |
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Spam analysts from AV vendor BitDefender warn of a new phishing campaign targeting Bank of America costumers. The spam e-mails bear the branding elements of the company and instruct potential victims to visit a link and complete a fake customer form with their credit card information. The phishing e-mails' "Fro... |
14 July 2009
08:52 GMT |
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The UK Metro Police's Central e-crime Unit (PCeU) and the FBI have collaborated to bust a gang of fraudsters, which scammed Apple and Amazon out of over $300,000 in paid royalty fees. The cybercrooks uploaded self-made songs to the iTunes Store and Amazon MP3 and then bought them back using stolen credit cards. ... |
15 June 2009
04:20 GMT |
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Following a March report from Sophos regarding a Trojan that infects Diebold ATMs and steals credit card data, another similar piece of malware has been analyzed (PDF) by researchers from Trustwave. The malicious application is able to infect Windows XP-based ATMs from multiple vendors and features complex functions.... |
4 June 2009
07:15 GMT |
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Batteries.com, a supplier of batteries and accessories for electronic consumer products, has announced a data breach incident after unknown individuals obtained unauthorized access to the server used to host its online store. Customer names, addresses and credit card details were stolen and some of the information ha... |
3 June 2009
08:12 GMT |
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A Minneapolis federal judge has sentenced Sergiu Daniel Popa, 23, from Shelby Township, Michigan, to eight and a half years in jail for running a phishing scheme, which lasted almost seven years and totaled $700,000 in losses.Popa emigrated to U.S. from Romania and started his illegal online activities in June 2000, ... |
29 May 2009
09:03 GMT |
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Two men have received significantly different sentences for their involvement in a four-year-long phishing operation that targeted AOL customers. Charlie Blount Jr. will spend the next four years behind bars, while Thomas Taylor Jr. will pass the same time on probation. Between 2000 and 2006, a gang of cybercrooks p... |
27 March 2009
07:19 GMT |
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Evidence is piling up against "the Analyzer," an Israeli hacker who was arrested in Canada in September 2008 for hacking into a Canadian credit and debit card issuer and siphoning cash out of the compromised accounts. According to an affidavit (PDF) obtained by Wired, authorities in the U.S. also linked him to severa... |
26 March 2009
05:23 GMT |
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BBC reporters have bought valid stolen credit card details from a man in New Delhi, India. The cards are thought to have been leaked from Indian call centers, including one handling Symantec software license renewals. Acting on a tip, a team of undercover BBC reporters flew to India to meet Saurabh Sachar, a man wil... |
23 March 2009
07:20 GMT |
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A Grand Jury from the Eastern District of New York has indicted Israeli hacker Ehud Tenenbaum, reports Threat Level. He is being accused of conspiring to commit and committing access device fraud and faces a maximum of 30 years in prison. Tenenbaum was arrested last month in Canada, where he is currently being detain... |
31 October 2008
07:10 GMT |
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Earlier this week a German radio unmasked an FBI undercover operation on a popular underground forum used by cybercriminals to sell stolen banking information and equipment used for credit card fraud. The FBI confirmed the operation in a press release, outlining the results so far and their future plans.As we previou... |
18 October 2008
06:07 GMT |
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The US National Counterintelligence Executive, Joel Brenner, announced that an organized crime group succeeded into tampering with commercial credit card readers which were shipped to and installed in retail stores around Europe. These devices are believed to have been in use for at least nine months before they were... |
14 October 2008
09:49 GMT |
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Kim Kardashian is apparently a very foxy lady. OK, maybe I'm not making myself explicit enough. Apparently, if you can stay away from her, that would be a very good idea. Don't get too close, and definitely don't let her drag you into the bedroom, or you and your entire family are history. And no, that... |
5 February 2008
04:26 GMT |
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