TRUNEWS – Prosecutors have announced criminal charges for three men accused of helping to run a series of hacking and fraud schemes, including an attack in 2014 against JPMorgan Chase & Co that generated hundreds of millions of dollars in illegal profit.
Gery Shalon, Joshua Samuel Aaron and Ziv Orenstein are named in a 23-count indictment, the three are accused of crimes involving at least nine financial services companies and media outlets, as well as online casinos, payment processing for criminals, and an illegal bitcoin exchange.
A fourth man, Anthony Murgio, is also named in the bitcoin exchange scam.
The charges are the first to be connected to the attack on JPMorgan, in which 83 million customers had their personal data accessed; prosecutors are calling it the largest theft of customer data from a US financial institution.
Other companies who were affected include E Trade Financial, which says it’s contacted some 31,000 customers who may have been affected.
JPMorgan says it continues to work with authorities in an effort to fight further cybercrimes.
The city council of a Canadian town canceled an event in a city-owned facility because they did not want to be associated with the Christian beliefs of Chick-Fil-A.
An event center in Nanaimo, British Columbia was scheduled to be rented out to a Georgia-based leadership organization that was putting on a simulcast for business leaders to develop their skills. The event was sponsored in part by Chick-Fil-A. When the town’s city council discovered the restaurant was a co-sponsor, they voted 8-1 to cancel the event.
City Council member Jim Kipp said that Christian beliefs were the same as the Boko Haram terrorists killing thousands in Nigeria. He said that Biblical Christianity was “organized crime.”
“I find [Chick-Fil-A President Dan Cathy’s beliefs] almost to be a criminal point of view in this day and age,” he claimed.
City staff told the council members that the event had nothing to do with the Christian beliefs of the restaurant’s president, but the council members were not interested in the information.
A column in the Tornado Sun newspaper called the council’s actions “shocking bigotry” against Christianity.
With intolerance and bigotry toward Christians on the rise, most Baby Jesus dolls are being stolen from church manger scenes around the country. As a result, some churches are turning to technology to track down the thieves.
BrickHouse Security has offered for the last five Christmas to provide churches GPS trackers for their Baby Jesus free of charge. The program, called “Saving Jesus”, is designed to track down and allow police to prosecute those who damage or steal the Baby Jesus from a nativity scene.
“We have been providing free GPS trackers to churches and temples for the past 5 years because there has been a rash of stolen nativity scenes and stolen religious artifacts,” Todd Morris of BrickHouse Security told Fox News.
The GPS device is the size of a cigarette lighter and does not activate unless someone picks up the doll and starts to move.
The program even sends text alerts to church staff or law enforcement officials if the Baby Jesus is in motion.
In a brazen daylight robbery, a family’s home was invaded while they were attending church on Sunday.
The thieves took all of the family’s Christmas presents along with other valuables.
Nina and Chris Woods say that not only were the gifts and valuables stolen, the thieves helped themselves to the family’s financial records, taking bank account and credit card numbers.
The family is now living in fear of the thieves returning to the home. The children have been sent to stay with relatives for Christmas while their parents pack up the remaining belongings and try to find a new home before the end of the week.
“We can’t have the kids up in here if the door could get kicked in again. They could try and do it when we are here one day,” Chris told WCCO.
Minneapolis police say they are working hard to catch whoever committed the robbery.
The synthetic drug called “bath salts” is allegedly responsible for separate incidents over the weekend in New York.
Utica police were called to a bar Saturday night when a woman caused an incident. Police reported that the woman lunged at officers and tried to bite them on the face. She kept repeating that she wanted to “kill someone and eat them.” Continue reading →