An Allegation of Harm
Summary: An Ohio man, Lance Ealy, was arrested by the U.S. Secret Service in November 2013 and accused of buying 363 "fullz" identity packages from Hieu Minh Ngo's Superget.info service, which drew in part on data sold by an Experian business unit. The Justice Department alleges Ealy filed at least 150 fraudulent tax returns between January and October 2013, about 50 of them using data from Ngo's service, and he faces a 42-count superseding indictment carrying up to 20 years in prison and $250,000 in fines.
What's compelling: Experian told Congress in December 2013 it was not aware of any consumers harmed by selling records to an identity theft service for nearly 10 months; the government's case against one of that service's 1,300 customers is the concrete harm behind that statement.
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