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California Sees Second Straight Year of Vehicle Theft Declines
Aug 7 2026 // California recorded its second straight year of declining vehicle thefts last year, the California Highway Patrol is reporting. According to the CHP’s, thieves stole roughly 133,000 vehicles in California in 2025,...
AI Now Fuels Over Half of Africa’s Cybercrime, Study Finds
Aug 5 2026 // Artificial intelligence is fueling more than half of cybercrime in Africa, enabling criminals to launch faster, more sophisticated attacks as financial losses continue to mount, a new study found. “Cybercrime has...
Amgen Reports Theft of Patient Data in Cyber Incident
Aug 3 2026 // Amgen Inc. experienced a cyber incident that involved the theft of patient information and proprietary data stored in cloud servers, it said in a filing July 31, the latest large healthcare company to suffer a data...
‘Tow Godz’ and Auto Glass Businessmen Charged in Carolina Fraud Schemes
Aug 3 2026 // Two Carolina businessmen were charged with auto insurance fraud in separate schemes that involved made-up tow truck charges and windshields that were never replaced. In Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, state authorities last...
Former Insurance Agent Sentenced to Jail for Fraud, Again
Jul 31 2026 // A Baltimore County judge has sentenced Michael C. Okolo of Pikesville, Maryland, to six months incarceration for 10 counts of insurance fraud for acting as an insurance agent without a license. According to Attorney...
Ventura County DA Gets $900,000 to Combat Workers’ Comp Fraud
Jul 29 2026 // The Ventura County District Attorney’s Office was awarded $898,840 from to investigate prosecute workers’ compensation fraud for the fiscal year. The grant, awarded through the California Department of...
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