A web-mapping project came across detainees’ prescriptions and other PII that could be used by identity thieves to victimize prisoners.
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‘Iceman’ hacker charged with running drone-smuggling ring from jail
Max Ray Vision says he’s innocent of owning the phone used to orchestrate the scheme and ripping off debit cards to fund the drone purchase.
Prisoners allegedly posed as underage girls in $560K sextortion scam
They allegedly victimized 442 military men by sending nude photos and then calling, pretending to be irate fathers or police.
Prisoners exploit tablet vulnerability to steal nearly $225K
364 of them hacked the JPay tablets they use for email, music and games and transferred money into their own accounts.
Death SWAT suspect tweets threats from jail using buggy inmate kiosk
He apparently got online when a jail kiosk software upgrade glitched. Alternatively, as his account explained it, because “I’m an eGod.”