
Five foreign nationals from Somalia were stopped on the Ohio Turnpike and charged with credit card fraud, possession of forgery tools, as well as drug and traffic violations, authorities say.
by Warner Todd Huston19 Nov 2015, 1:09 PM PST0

Illegal alien Ramon Perez-Rivera convinced a California court to switch an American’s name over to him, then collected taxpayer-funded benefits, a U.S. passport, and a California driver’s license, spent one night in jail for his crimes.
by Katie McHugh27 Oct 2015, 7:35 PM PST0

Texas police are holding Mexican immigrant Rodrigo Rodriguez, after multiple law enforcement agencies tracked him down and a search of his apartment revealed “141 Social Security cards, 110 birth certificates, 18 Texas ID cards, 11 Texas driver’s license, 3 tampered birth certificates, 1 marriage license and 1 Mexico ID card,” according to KRGV.com.
by Katie McHugh21 Oct 2015, 11:29 AM PST0

Former tennis star James Blake, once ranked fourth in the world, is calling for the NYPD officer who mistook him for a thief and body-slammed him to the ground to be fired.
by William Bigelow13 Sep 2015, 7:55 PM PST0

On August 31, Governor Jerry Brown (D) signed an executive order to initiate the creation of a California Cybersecurity Integration Center (Cal-CSIC).
by AWR Hawkins1 Sep 2015, 12:31 PM PST0

Every government hacking story seems to include subsequent revelations that the problem is at least twice as bad as the authorities originally admitted.
by John Hayward17 Aug 2015, 12:17 PM PST0

No one is ever held responsible for failure in government any more; even the most breathtaking incompetence and abuse lead to zero terminations or punishment. Congress is beginning to grumble about hearings and subpoenas, but even those tend to be ignored and subverted in the Obama era.
by John Hayward16 Jun 2015, 3:29 PM PST0

The first reports of the massive penetration of Office of Personnel Management files and security clearance applications — apparently by Chinese hackers most likely working for, or with, that country’s military intelligence apparatus — included grumbles from the affected employees that the administration didn’t handle the situation very well.
by John Hayward15 Jun 2015, 12:35 PM PST0

IRS investigators believe the identity thieves who stole the personal tax information of more than 100,000 taxpayers from an IRS website are part of a sophisticated criminal operation based in Russia, two officials told the Associated Press.
by Breitbart News27 May 2015, 2:20 PM PST0

Thieves used an online service provided by the IRS to gain access to information from more than 100,000 taxpayers, the agency said Tuesday.
by Breitbart News26 May 2015, 1:25 PM PST0

Millions of TurboTax users will be troubled by a lawsuit that was filed Monday in San Francisco against Intuit, Inc. claiming that when the firm knew TurboTax’s lax software security protections were allowing a huge spike in tax refund theft, TurboTax failed to correct weaknesses or notify customers about ongoing risks.
by Chriss W. Street25 Apr 2015, 6:00 AM PST0

“It’s unacceptable that the federal government spends hundreds of millions of dollars each year in improper payments to deceased people,” Rep. Cheri Bustos (D-IL) says.
by Alex Swoyer24 Apr 2015, 12:48 PM PST0

Turns out it is not a good idea to steal the identity of a Border Patrol agent — especially if you are an illegal immigrant trying to use that identity to lie to Border Patrol officers.
by Caroline May20 Apr 2015, 12:07 PM PST0

An audit conducted by the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) inspector general finds that thousands of social security numbers of people who are long deceased were used by illegal immigrants to apply for work, and some numbers were also used to open bank accounts.
by Dr. Susan Berry9 Mar 2015, 8:21 PM PST0

One of the notorious Russian hackers who has allegedly been raiding American corporate systems for credit card data and other valuable information has been apprehended in Amsterdam and extradited to the United States to face justice.
by John Hayward18 Feb 2015, 10:50 AM PST0

One of the largest data breaches in history was revealed Wednesday, as health insurance giant Anthem Inc. acknowledged its computer system was violated starting on December 10. The company noticed the breach on January 27 and verified it two days later.
by William Bigelow5 Feb 2015, 12:35 PM PST0

Illegal immigrants are getting a free pass on identity theft and perjury felonies they committed in the past due to specific written instructions from the chief of the Investigative Division of California’s Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) that essentially directs law enforcement to turn a blind eye when they discover that illegal immigrants have been using illegally obtained IDs.
by Adelle Nazarian27 Jan 2015, 4:30 AM PST0