identity-theft
That Government Hack Was Much, Much Bigger Than Initially Reported
Gabrielle Bluestone · 07/09/15 03:01PMFeds Stole a Woman's Identity and Made a Fake Facebook Page for Her
Andy Cush · 10/07/14 11:30AMSearch "Sondra Price" on Facebook and you'll find a profile for the woman shown above. From the information that's publicly displayed, you'll learn a few things about her: She went to Watertown High School, she drives a BMW, her nickname is "Sosa," and judging by one picture, she might have young children.
Mark Wahlberg to Fan Who Mistook Him for Matt Damon: 'Close Enough'
Neetzan Zimmerman · 08/08/13 05:55PMBank Pulls Terrifying Identity Theft ‘Prank’ on Unsuspecting Customer
Neetzan Zimmerman · 07/10/13 12:43PMJust how serious is Belgium about warning its citizens to protect themselves against identity theft? So serious that the country's financial sector purposely stole one man's identity to prove a point.
Hipster Thieves Caught Because They Just Had to Instagram Their Food
Gabrielle Bluestone · 05/12/13 01:19PMNathaniel Troy Maye and Tiwanna Tenise Thomason stole thousands of identities. And they might have gotten away with it, had it not been for a Morton's steak with macaroni and cheese, a meal so perfect and delectable it just had to be photographed and turned into food porn. It just had to be uploaded to Maye's Instagram account, uploaded with the perfect caption: "Morton's."
'Dumb' Identity Thief Hands Waitress Her Own Stolen ID Card
Neetzan Zimmerman · 03/07/13 11:50AMUnderage UI Student Tries to Get Into Bar with Bouncer's Stolen ID
Neetzan Zimmerman · 05/08/12 10:20AMHarvard Fraudster Returns to Jail for Dropping Another H-Bomb
Maureen O'Connor · 11/09/11 06:42PMThe Talented Mr. Adam Wheeler—the "crypto-tendentious" literary beefcake convicted of larceny, identity theft, and fraud for scamming his way into Harvard—is back in jail for violating the terms of his probation. His mistake: repeating that old lie about being Harvard material. The Harvard Crimson reports:
Police Bust Biggest Identity Theft Ring Ever in Queens
Adrian Chen · 10/07/11 02:48PMMiss USA Contestant Confesses to Identity Theft
Max Read · 05/15/11 01:35PMThe state of Wisconsin was deeply disgraced over the weekend as its foremost representative, Miss Wisconsin USA, admitted to identity theft. Shaletta Porterfield, who worked at a marketing company last summer, told police that she forged the signatures of clients in order to meet her commission goals. She likely won't see any jail time (according to her lawyer, she didn't benefit monetarily from her actions, and stopped working at the firm in August), but she will have live with the knowledge that she brought deep and abiding shame upon the Miss USA pageant. [Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel via NYDN]
All Puerto Rican Birth Certificates to Be Invalidated
Max Read · 04/21/10 02:23AMEx-Government Informant Hacker Gets 20 Years in Jail
Jeff Neumann · 03/26/10 07:31AMTerrorist Threat of the Day: The Yonkers DMV
John Cook · 02/24/10 03:34PMThe DMV's Identity Theft Ring
John Cook · 02/24/10 03:34PMIdentity Thieves Get the Gift of a Lifetime
cityfile · 05/08/09 08:21AMDoes the name "Frenkel Lambert Weiss Weisman & Gordon" mean anything to you? No? Excellent. Feel free to move along. But if the name rings a bell because it happens to be the name of a law firm you've worked with the past, you may want to call another law firm right now since you're probably going to need a new lawyer to sue your old lawyer. It seems Frenkel Lambert filled up 61 dumpsters worth of client files—including medical records, social security numbers, addresses and the like—and dumped it on the street. Identity thieves were naturally quite pleased to see the sensitive info materialize downtown; when a Daily News reporter arrived on the scene yesterday, "several passersby were digging through the mountain of paper." Frenkel Lambert says it is now investigating the incident. In the meantime, we'll just have to there's a connection between this mishap and the "Code Shred" truck that was spotted around the corner early this morning. [NYDN, Dealbreaker]
Your Identity is Fluttering in the Wind
cityfile · 01/28/09 07:49AMHope you didn't rent an apartment on the Upper West Side using a broker from Citi Habitats. Thousands of pages of bank statements, credit reports, tax returns and driver's licenses were discovered along Columbus Avenue afternoon yesterday, just waiting to be picked up by would-be identity thieves (and Eyewitness News reporter NJ Burkett, of course). Citi Habitats says the document dump occurred "during a refurbishing" of the company's offices at 465 Columbus Avenue. Feel free to recycle that excuse when your bank calls to inquire about the 27 flat-screen TVs purchased in your name at the Best Buy in Paramus. [ABC7 via TRD]
The BBC creates a Facebook app to steal identities
Nicholas Carlson · 05/02/08 11:20AMIn order to demonstrate how easy it would be for an malicious developer to create an application that steals private information from Facebook users, BBC television series Click created such an application themselves. Then they set up some spooky lighting and filmed a dude using two computers. "ID theft is a serious matter," the narrator intones. Check it out in the clip.
"Data Security Incident" Rocks MTV! 5,000 Staffers Exposed!
Pareene · 03/07/08 05:56PMCatherine Houser, MTV Networks Executive VP for Human Resources, sent an email out to 5,000 MTV employees alerting them that because "the computer of one of our MTVN colleagues was compromised.... files containing some confidential information about you were illegally accessed by someone outside the Company." Hope you weren't using that Social Security number and decent credit rating, sport: "The personal information that was accessed included names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers and compensation data." Now some criminal knows how much you don't make! How many of the affected were among the 1,000 permalancers bumped up to staff in January, we wonder? Full email with all the grisly details attached. Pray for rock and roll.
Which is funnier, the headline or the photo?
Nick Douglas · 07/11/06 09:00AMLook, this is only marginally related to technology. But seriously: