An Ohio man named Lance Ealy was arrested for purchasing the Social Security numbers and other personal information from an online identity theft service that was run for about 10 months by Hieu Minh Ngo in Vietnam. Ngo had acquired the data through an Experian subsidiary called Court Ventures. He pleaded guilty earlier this year to running the ID theft service. Investigator Brian Krebss wrote that Ealy allegedly used the stolen information to electronically file at least 150 fraudulent tax returns for which refunds were sent to prepaid card accounts he controlled. Ealy was arrested by the Secret Service on November 25, 2013. He was one of 1,300 customers of Ngos service. Yet even after that arrest, Krebs reported Monday that an Experian Executive told Congress in December that the company was not aware of any consumers who had been harmed by Hieu Minh Ngos access to consumer records.
Posted on: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 16:45:00 +0000
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