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follow-up: Leader in TJX Fraud Gets 5-Year Sentence
From: security curmudgeon <jericho () attrition org>
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2007 06:15:48 +0000 (UTC)
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org> http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118973246548127272.html By Joseph Pereira The Wall Street Journal September 14, 2007 Irving Escobar, a ring leader in a TJX Cos.-linked credit-card fraud, was sentenced to five years in prison and has been ordered to pay nearly $600,000 in restitution for damages resulting from stolen financial information, Florida officials said. The sentencing follows a guilty plea by Mr. Escobar, 19 years old, of Miami, to charges that he participated in a 10-person operation that used counterfeit cards bearing the stolen credit-card data of hundreds of TJX customers to purchase approximately $3 million in goods and gift cards. The penalty is the stiffest handed down so far in the case. The thefts were carried out at a string of Wal-Mart and Sam's Club stores in Florida during the second half of 2006, authorities said. Some of the merchandise was bought with gift cards that had previously been purchased with the fraudulent credit cards, a modern-day version of money laundering, officials said. [..] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tenable Network Security offers data leakage and compliance monitoring solutions for large and small networks. Scan your network and monitor your traffic to find the data needing protection before it leaks out! http://www.tenablesecurity.com/products/compliance.shtml
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