Posts Tagged ‘Life Lock identity theft protection’

Denver identity theft crime ring indicted

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008

A Denver grand jury indicted five defendants last week in an identity theft crime ring. Shadwick Weaver, the ringleader, is in custody and being held on $500,000 bond. Weaver has been indicted on 65 counts. Three of the others indicted by the grand jury are also in custody; a fifth defendant is at large.

During a joint investigation by the economic crimes units of the Aurora Police Department and the Denver District Attorney’s office, detectives discovered almost 300 fraudulent IDs, employee IDs, and counterfeit checks and credit cards. (more…)

Massive digital cache of stolen accounts, logins and passwords discovered. We all need LifeLock’s ID theft protection.

Monday, November 3rd, 2008

The RSA FraudAction Research Lab announced on Friday it had discovered a digital cache of more than a half million stolen online bank logins, passwords and credit card account numbers, and speculated that a Russian identity theft ring stole the information.

A computer virus called the Sinowal Trojan Horse is to blame for the massive theft, and has been collecting the data since 2006. (more…)