Posts Tagged ‘FBI’

A federal judge granted final approval on a settlement between Countrywide Financial Corporation and around 17 million customers on Monday.  This was a result of a large data breach that left the large group at a high risk for identity theft. Â
Bank of America, who now owns Countrywide, will provide free credit monitoring for the [...]

The US Justice Department is failing to tackle the problem of identity theft, the agency’s inspector general, Glenn Fine, said in a report released Tuesday.
In an internal review of operations, Fine says the department has not made identity theft a priority and has failed to take a coordinated approach to fighting the problem.
Yet identity theft [...]

L.A. County Sheriff’s Department and FBI Prosecutors have charge three identity thieves after a three year investigation.  The three men are accused of stealing over $2 million dollars by installing skimming devices on gas station pumps that harvested credit card access codes.
The men pleaded not guilty Monday in Los Angeles to two dozen charges of [...]

The FBI and Better Business Bureau Wednesday put out a warning to exercise caution before donating to organizations claiming to be charities that will send financial assistance to Haiti.
“Apply a critical eye,” said the FBI in a statement, and do “due diligence before responding to those requests.”
“Be cautious about online giving, especially in response to [...]

There are currently 45 states that have their own data breach notification bills.  The Chief of the FBI’s Cyber Criminal Section, Jeffrey Troy believes this should be a Federal Law for all states.
“A data breach notification bill would help us tremendously, particularly in terms of efficiency in conducting investigations,” said Troy.
“If U.S. businesses were required [...]

More than 50 people have been indicted in Southern California, Las Vegas and Charlotte, N.C., in connection with a “phishing” scheme to steal bank account information from thousands of victims in the United States, authorities said Tuesday.Â
The three alleged ringleaders, all California residents, were identified by the FBI as Kenneth Joseph Lucas, 25, of Los [...]

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has issued an alert about the top four most common types of health Insurance frauds:
1. Medical Equipment Fraud: Individuals are offered “free products” from equipment manufacturers. Insurers are charged for products that were not needed and/or may not have been delivered.
2. “Rolling Lab” Schemes: Unnecessary and sometimes fake tests [...]

Today a report in the New York Times cites Melissa Hathaway, acting senior director for cyberspace appointed by President Obama, as saying the White House needed to step in and take control of the nation’s cybersecurity policy.
Hathaway was given responsibility for a 60-day review of the issues surrounding cyberspace threats. Yesterday, the federal official said [...]

The FBI and “The Oprah Winfrey Show” say Internet users should beware of an e-mail scam disguised as the “Oprah Millionaire Contest Show.”
The FBI says as part of the scam, the e-mail sender requests contact information. It also asks recipients to buy a plane ticket in exchange for a promised seat to Winfrey’s popular Chicago-based [...]

The FBI and the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) continue to receive numerous complaints from individuals who have fallen victim to work-at-home scams and remind consumers to be vigilant when seeking employment online.
These work-at-home schemes are designed by criminals to gain the trust of job seekers in order to take advantage of working relationships to [...]