Man Steals Printer, Calls Tech Support, Lands in Jail
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Here's a tip: if you steal a printer used to print driver's licenses, don't call the manufacturer asking for driver software.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. - A Massachusetts businessman who resold Cisco Systems Inc. networking gear was arrested on charges he defrauded the technology company out of millions of dollars by cheating its program to replace broken or defective hardware.
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UK Police have arrested a 20-year old man in Preston on suspicion of stealing source code from Cisco Systems. The arrest under violation of the Computer Misuse Act 1990, follows Cisco&#39;s admission in May that
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Suspect accused of stealing and distributing source code over the Internet.
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A Connecticut man arrested on charges of selling Windows 2000 and Windows NT 4.0 source code stolen from a Microsoft Corp. partner faces up to 10 years in prison and a fine of $250,000, according to a complaint unsealed by a New York court.
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A Colombian man pleaded guilty Wednesday to a 16-county indictment involving an identity theft scheme in which he installed keylogging software on hotel business center computers and Internet lounges in order to steal passwords, account data, and other personal information, the U.S. Department of Justice announced.The computer fraud scheme had more than 600 victims worldwide, including U.S. Department of Defense employees, the DOJ said. Mario Simbaqueba Bonilla, 40, used money obtained in the scheme to buy expensive electronic devices, including a home theater system, and to fund luxury travel to Hong Kong, France, Jamaica, the U.S., and other locations, according to a DOJ news release and the indictment in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.Simbaqueba Bonilla, sometimes working with a co-conspirator, used a series of complex computer intrusions to steal money from payroll, bank, and other accounts, the DOJ said. Much of the identity theft activity targeted U.S. residents, including employees of the Department of Defense.Simbaqueba Bonilla used the data he intercepted from his victims, who were typically guests at hotels throughout the U.S., to steal or divert money from their accounts into other accounts he had created in the names of other people he had victimized in the same way, the DOJ said. Through a complex series of electronic transactions designed to cover his trail, Simbaqueba Bonilla would transfer the stolen money to credit, cash, or debit cards and have the cards mailed to himself and others at Pak Mail and other commercial mailing addresses.Federal agents arrested Simbaqueba Bonilla when he flew into the U.S. in August.Simbaqueba Bonilla was flying on an airline ticket purchased with stolen funds, and had in his possession a laptop also purchased with stolen funds, the DOJ said. That laptop contained the names, passwords and other personal and financial information of more than 600 people.R. Alexander Acosta, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, warned travelers to think twice before entering personal information on a public computer.&quot;Unfortunately, this is not an isolated case,&quot; Acosta said in a statement. &quot;The Internet is an outstanding tool, but it is vulnerable. Criminals like Bonilla use the Internet to steal our banking and personal data, and then our money.&quot;The DOJ was assisted in the investigation by the Department of Defense, the Defense Criminal Investigative Service and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service.
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Thieves who broke into a driver's license center stole equipment to make fraudulent licenses and got away with computers containing personal information on more than 11,000 customers, officials said Thursday.
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A 21-year-old Michigan man who tried to steal credit card numbers from a national hardware store chain is sentenced to nine years in federal prison.
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And his Mexican lawyer shot the same day In yet another twist in the extraordinary tale of Sex.com, the con-man who stole the world's most valuable domain has been released from jail - in order to locate the millions of dollars he owes the original owner.â¦
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Things just aren&#39;t going well for Timothy Scott Short. Just days after a pair of tech support calls he made to printer manufacturer Digimarc&#160;resulted in his arrest, he now finds himself on the receiving end of a data breach with his Social Security number and birthdate accidentally made public via the federal court&#39;s Electronic Case Files (ECF) system.It&#39;s an ironic development, because Short, 33, was arrested in connection with the Oct. 5 theft of a Missouri Department of Revenue printer and a PC containing data on as many as 500 state residents.Short&#39;s personal information was discovered by the IDG News Service, listed on a court document called a Criminal Case Cover Sheet, which was publicly available to users of the ECF system. Normally, this document should only be accessible to those involved in the case, but it appears to have been inadvertently made public, according to a clerk with the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, who asked not to be identified because she was not authorized to speak with the press. &quot;It&#39;s something on our side,&quot; she said, adding that technical staff is now looking into the problem.The U.S. Judicial Conference, which sets policy for U.S. courts, has said that this kind of information should be removed from publicly available electronic court records, but actually removing all the sensitive information has proved difficult.&quot;If you went online to various court systems, you could find social security numbers of many individuals,&quot; said Paul Stephens, director of policy and advocacy with the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse. &quot;It&#39;s a really, really difficult question to answer, just because you&#39;re dealing with so many jurisdictions.&quot;Social Security numbers are the building blocks of identity theft crime because they can be used to secure credit cards. &quot;Any time you are placing Social Security numbers online, your are subjecting that person to identity theft,&quot; Stephens said.With the push to make public documents available online, other government databases have had similar problems. Earlier this year, the states of California and Colorado were forced to take their Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) databases offline after privacy advocates pointed out that the Social Security numbers and other data they contained could be misused by identity thieves.Short, however, may have bigger problems to worry about. He&#39;s facing $250,000 in fines and 10 years in prison on charges of possession of &quot;document-making implements&quot; in connection with the theft. He was arrested after U.S. Secret Service Special Agent John Bush recognized his voice in calls placed to a tech support line of the company that makes the stolen printer.&#160;
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By MATTHEW FORDAHL    SAN JOSE, Calif.  -- A 20-year-old man has been arrested in England in the theft of the proprietary software blueprints used by Cisco Systems Inc...
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A digital come-on tricks a New Zealand man into exposing himself to the wrong address.
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Police said on Monday they have arrested  a 20-year-old British man on suspicion of stealing Cisco  Systems CSCO.O source code, the basic instructions for the  machines that direct Internet traffic across the globe.
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A computer technician involved in a bid to extort $1.3 million from Tom Cruise for copies of the actor's stolen wedding photographs was sentenced on Thursday to two years probation.
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By JORDAN ROBERTSON, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS  SAN JOSE, Calif.  A computer technician working for the city of Newark was arrested on charges he defrauded technology giant Cisco Systems Inc.
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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. - A man charged with forgery allegedly tried to get out of jail by - what else? - forging documents for his release...
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A man has been arrested for selling portions of the Windows 2000 and Windows NT 4.0 source code on-line after the software was illegally leaked onto the internet in February, according to reports.