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Federal prosecutors say an Illinois man has pleaded guilty in an identity theft ring that ensnared Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke as a victim.
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.
A sophisticated identity theft ring that counted Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's wife among its victims didn't stop at stealing money electronically. Authorities said Tuesday it also sent a woman wearing a variety of wigs into bank branches to drain their accounts in person.
The Army National Guard is investigating why a contractor had data including Social Security numbers for 131,000 current and former soldiers on an unsecured personal laptop that was stolen, a spokesman said Thursday.
For all the concern about identity theft, researchers say there's a surprisingly easy way for the technology-savvy to figure out the precious nine digits of Americans' Social Security numbers.
Companies that sell "identity-theft protection" present an alluring but questionable proposition.
New York City officials busted an international credit card and identity theft ring that ensnared more than 6,000 customers around the world and caused about $15 million in losses, police and prosecutors said Thursday.
A unanimous Supreme Court said Monday that undocumented workers who use phony IDs can't be considered identity thieves without proof they knew they were stealing real people's Social Security and other numbers.
A former New York state tax department worker was accused of stealing the identities of thousands of taxpayers and running up more than $200,000 in fraudulent charges.
An identity-theft ring that catered to illegal immigrants seeking to establish themselves in the U.S. stole the personal data of 7,000 public school children in Puerto Rico, officials said Tuesday.
A man has been accused of using stolen Social Security numbers to buy a new home, vehicles and electronics, and then selling the information to others in a multimillion-dollar identity theft ring.
The Supreme Court appeared poised Wednesday to rule that undocumented immigrants who use phony Social Security numbers to get work should not be considered identity thieves, even if those numbers belong to real people.
Lisa Henson got some satisfaction from facing the thief who used her missing niece's identity to scam her way into an Ivy League school.
The number of Americans ensnared by identity theft is on the rise, but victims are striking back more quickly and limiting how much is stolen.
A Russian has been sentenced in New York to prison for stealing more than $1 million from victims chosen from the Forbes 400 list of wealthy Americans.
Express Scripts said Thursday it has received a letter demanding money from the company under the threat of exposing records of millions of patients.
The Supreme Court is taking a look at federal prosecutors' efforts to pin identity theft charges on undocumented foreign workers who have Social Security and identification numbers that belong to others.
Tax preparer Rebecca Spencer told Congress Thursday how it took two months, after contacts with four Internal Revenue Service offices, for a client to receive a tax refund that she had been deprived of because she was the victim of identity theft.
Police in a Chicago suburb say the Internal Revenue Service has told a 7-year-old boy he owes back taxes on $60,000 because someone else has been using the youngster's identity to collect wages and unemployment benefits.
Nearly two years after an embarrassing flap in which veterans' personal information was put at risk of identity theft, federal agencies are still not doing all they can to prevent further lapses, investigators have found.
A woman suspected of stealing other people's identities and duping some of the country's top universities into admitting her and giving her student loans has been arrested in a Chicago suburb, federal investigators say.
A government survey released this week questions the conventional wisdom that identity theft is a growing problem in the U.S.
Identity thieves are typically young, work solo and rely on the Internet for fewer than one-fifth of their crimes, according to a new study of Secret Service cases.
Obama's Nomination for Iowa U.S. Attorney CriticizedEleventh-hour criticism is arising over President Obama's nomination for United States attorney in northern Iowa of a prosecutor who had a leading role in the criminal cases against hundreds of illegal immigrants arrested in a May 2008 raid at a meatpacking plant in Postville, …
Rep. Robert Wexler's Ghanian Extortionist Detained By Secret ServiceBOCA RATON, Fla. — The U.S. Secret Service says a man is being held in the West African nation of Ghana after attempting to extort money from U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler.
6 members of Bonanno crime family admit guiltOne by one, members of a South Florida crew of the New York-based Bonanno crime family stand before a federal judge to plead guilty to racketeering charges.
Firms 'mishandle sensitive data'About a third of UK employees throw sensitive documents in the bin instead of shredding them, research suggests.
$3b p.a. windfall for online fraudstersIdentity fraud is costing the Australian economy up to $3 billion a year, police experts will tell a national crime conference on the Gold Coast this morning.
Nev. Sec. of State: ACORN Illegally Hired Prisoners for Voter Registration DrivesNevada Secretary of State Ross Miller, a democrat, told Eric Shawn on FOX News that ACORN was hiring convicts still in prison -CONVICTED OF IDENTITY THEFT- for canvassing voters.
Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) | Alert: Techniques used by fraudsters on social networking sitesFraudsters continue to hijack accounts on social networking sites and spread malicious software by using various techniques.
The U.S. Secret Service made arrests last Wednesday, Sept. 2, in a case that combined elements of international fraud, credit card data, luxury auto exports, and counterfeit credit cards.
Hacker in massive card data theft pleads guiltyA computer hacker accused of masterminding one of the largest cases of identity theft in U.S. history agreed Friday to plead guilty and serve up to 25 years in federal prison for his crimes.
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From snitch to cyberthief of the centuryOn May 7, 2008, federal agents swept through Miami-Dade looking for evidence that one of their best informants was also one of the world's biggest cyberthiefs.
American Express Credit Card Theft Cases Taken to Grand JuryInvestigators said one of the suspects got the numbers while working for American Express. This is the second case in less than 90 days where American Express employees have stolen data from the company. It appears they have very lax security internally.
Transsexual counterfeiter arrested againLast week, Jacksonville police pulled a person over for speeding and smelled marijuana.
3rd Person Arrested In Phoenix American Express Credit Card Identity TheftAnother one bites the dust in the AmEx credit card theft of live cardmember numbers involving Timothy Curley, a former American Express Technologies employee and database administrator in Phoenix.
Biometrics Data Is Vulnerable, Warn ExpertsIndustry forecasters say the market for biometric data-collection systems will double or triple in size over the next five years.
The Crime Investigation Industry Takes A Hit According to The New York Times, scientists have demonstrated how DNA can be fabricated with access to a DNA database and a biolab.
Three Indicted in Largest Card Theft Ring to Be ProsecutedProsecutors called it the largest case of computer crime and identity theft ever prosecuted.
Law Enforcement Officer gets 8 years for online identity theftA Florida officer has been sentenced to eight years in prison for using official databases in an online identity theft scam.
Seattle man used Limewire for identity theft A Seattle man was sentenced to more than three years in prison Tuesday for using the Limewire file-sharing service to lift personal information from computers across the U.S.
The fake Facebook friend: 'Please help me'Is Facebook becoming Phishingbook? Users of the social networking site in the United States and around the world are finding themselves being hit up for money by "friends" in need.
Friend's Hijacked; Email Scam Targets Columbia ManDid you know that your email address could be just as valuable to a con artist as your social security number? Experts say email hijacking is on the rise. And information in your account can lead to your identity being stolen. Fred Campbell found out recently.....
Four million British identities are up for sale on the internetThe identities of more than four million Britons are being offered for sale on the internet, The Times has learnt.
Carded for your care? Docs begin checking IDsElena Castro was finishing the paperwork to buy her first home when the bank called to warn her of a problem — nearly $10,000 in unpaid hospital bills on her credit report. The charges were for several ear, nose and throat procedures done at hospitals in her region.
Mother wrongly jailed on prostitution chargesAn Apopka mother sat behind bars for nearly five hours after a case of mistaken identity lead to her arrest for prostitution.
NSW Govt seeks new ID fraud lawsTough new laws aimed at clamping down on identity fraud are being drafted by the NSW government.
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