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A man the United States deems one of the worst offenders among sellers of stolen financial data was arrested in Nice, France, the Justice Department announced Wednesday. Vladislav Horohorin, 27, of Moscow and a dual Israeli and Ukrainian national, was arrested Saturday in Nice on a US warrant as he prepared to board a flight to Moscow, the department said ...

Yorkshireman arrested over US identity theft

US authorities have arrested a Briton for stealing the identity of a deceased American, Customs and Border Protection said. The State Department's Diplomatic Security Service found that John Skelton, 41, of Yorkshire, presented a fraudulently obtained US passport to reenter the United States after visiting Britain, a CBP statement said. The resident of Baltimore, Maryland, was arrested late Monday ...

Conn. AG says teachers' retirement board owes members identify theft aid, details on lost data

Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal says the state Teachers' Retirement Board owes its members identity theft protection and an explanation after waiting six months to inform them of a lost flash drive containing retirement data. Blumenthal said Wednesday he is urging the board to give ...

The fallout continued Friday over the SunÕs disclosure in November that confidential patient information was being leaked from University Medical Center.
A lawsuit seeking class-action status was filed in District Court in Clark County against UMC and the man indicted by a federal grand jury in connection with the patient privacy scandal.
Henderson attorney Jesse Sbaih filed the suit ...

Fraud rings steal Puerto Ricans' identities for sale to illegal immigrants

Born in a U.S. territory where he has lived all his life, Jose Marrero Rivera didn't know his name and social security number were racking up thousands of dollars in unpaid charges in Chicago and Miami. The snack bar worker is one of thousands of Puerto Ricans ...

Pa. mother at center of Disney World abduction hoax now accused of stealing from law firm

Authorities say a suburban Philadelphia mother at the center of an abduction hoax last year now faces charges in connection with the theft of hundreds of thousands of dollars from clients and colleagues at the law office where she worked. Thirty-nine-year-old Feasterville resident Bonnie ...

U.S. airport security officers targeted in ID theft

BOSTON (Reuters) - A Massachusetts couple has been charged with stealing the identities of dozens of Transportation Security Administration officers, who screen passengers and baggage at U.S. airports. A federal grand jury accused Michael Derring, 48, and Tina White, 47, on Wednesday of conspiracy and aggravated identity theft, alleging they stole personal information including the Social Security numbers of dozens ...

Prosecutors say they would retry Palin hacking defendant on ID theft if man is granted retrial

Prosecutors say a Tennessee man convicted of two federal charges in the hacking of Sarah Palin's e-mail account would be retried on an identity theft charge that left a jury deadlocked only if the defense is granted a retrial. David Kernell, 22, was ...

US official says efforts to fight nation's fastest growing crime, identity theft, fall short

An internal review has found that the Justice Department has not done enough to fight identity theft, the fastest-growing crime in the country. Justice Department Inspector General Glenn Fine says in a report that the department is falling short in efforts to combat identity theft ...

Justice Dept. criticized over identify theft

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Justice Department has failed to treat identity theft, one of the nation's fastest growing crimes, as a priority, the agency's inspector general said in a report released on Tuesday. The department has not made a coordinated approach to fight identity theft, and efforts to reduce it have faded as a priority, according to the report ...

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