ID Theft Service Customer Gets 27 Months
Summary: Derric Theoc, 36, of Florida, was sentenced to 27 months in prison after pleading guilty to attempting to purchase Social Security and bank account records on more than 100 Americans from Superget.info, an identity theft service run by Hieu Minh Ngo, with the intent to open credit card accounts and file fraudulent tax returns. Ngo was arrested in 2012 by U.S. Secret Service agents after being lured to Guam, and he admitted obtaining consumer data from data brokers including Court Ventures, which Experian acquired in March 2012, with Ngo continuing to siphon data for almost ten months after the acquisition via cash wire transfers from a bank in Singapore.
Bottom line: Secret Service investigators took control of Ngo's service in early 2013 to identify his more than 1,000 paying customers, and Theoc is only the latest of those customers rounded up - a reminder that a breach at a data broker can seed fraud across a thousand buyers long after the original operator is gone.
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