Identity Theft

The information posted by the hacking group Anonymous (as a part of the AntiSec movement) after an apparently successful attack on the Intelligence company Stratfor (www.stratfor.com) is strikingly voluminous.  According to a report by Identity Finder, LLC, the files posted to date by Anonymous and AntiSec contain the following personally identifiable information:

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency supports it! We here at the Financial Fraud Law blog support it! And we hope you support it, too! 

We know we worry about financial fraud. A lot. So, we go to the bank instead of banking online, buy things at stores instead of on the Internet, and eat at restaurants (well, that has nothing to do with our concerns about financial fraud – we just like to eat at restaurants). 

Tony Perez III is 21 years old. But the young man now has a long prison sentence to endure. Perez was just sentenced to 14 years in prison for operating an online business that sold counterfeit credit cards encoded with stolen account information. 

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) today released its analysis of identity theft suspicious activity reports (SARs) filed by securities and futures firms that shows identity thieves prefer to use stolen account identifiers to take over existing legitimate investment accounts rather than to set up new unauthorized accounts. 

A 25 year old Georgia man, Rogelio Hackett Jr., has been sentenced to 120 months in prison for trafficking in counterfeit credit cards and aggravated identity theft.   

This is a big case. Rogelio Hackett Jr. has pleaded guilty to trafficking in counterfeit credit cards and aggravated identity theft. According to court documents, U.S.

She lost her bid to become New York’s next Attorney General, but Nassau County, Long Island, District Attorney Kathleen Rice is prosecuting some big cases. Now, after a two-year investigation, her office has filed four indictments charging 17 people with more than 108 crimes for their alleged roles in mortgage fraud and identity theft schemes that stole more than $20 million from homeo

The Federal Trade Commission has released the list of top consumer complaints received by the agency in 2010. The list showed that for the 11th year in a row, identity theft was the number one consumer complaint category. Of 1,339,265 complaints received in 2010, 250,854 – or 19 percent – were related to identity theft. Debt collection complaints were in second place, with 144,159 complaints. 

Two self-described Internet “trolls” have been arrested for allegedly hacking AT&T’s servers and stealing email addresses and other personal information belonging to approximately 120,000 Apple iPad users who accessed the Internet via AT&T’s 3G network. According to N.J. U.S. Attorney Paul J.