Seattle Men Indicted on Hacking, Fraud Charges
SC Magazine reports three Seattle men were charged this week with hacking into the networks of more than a dozen businesses to steal online banking credentials and other data used to commit a variety of fraudulent acts. Joshuah Witt, 34, Brad Lowe and John Griffin, both 36, were charged in a 10-count federal indictment that accuses them of conspiracy, damaging computers, access device fraud and aggravated identity theft, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Seattle. Led by Griffin, the trio carried out the fraud from 2008 until 2010, according to prosecutors. During this time, they broke into more than a dozen business networks, and stole credit card numbers that were used to purchase tens of thousands of dollars in equipment and luxury goods.
