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US Indicts California Man Accused of Stealing Shopify Customer Data

A grand jury has indicted a California resident accused of stealing Shopify customer data on over a hundred merchants, TechCrunch reported Monday. From the report: The indictment charges Tassilo Heinrich with aggravated identity theft and conspiracy to commit wire fraud by allegedly working with two Shopify customer support agents to steal merchant and customer data from Shopify customers to gain a competitive edge and "take business away from those merchants," the indictment reads. Th
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WHAT HAPPENED
in a scheme to obtain customer transactional records of certain merchants. payment cards were also taken, which the indictment confirms. Another one of the victims was Kylie Jenner Published bySlashdoton Tue, 06 Apr 2021 A grand jury has indicted a California resident accused of stealing Shopify customer data on over a hundred merchants, TechCrunch reported Monday. The indictment also accuses Heinrich, believed to be around 18-years-old at the time of the alleged scheme, of selling the data to other co-conspirators to commit fraud. A person with direct knowledge of the security breach confirmed Shopify was the unnamed victim company referenced in the indictment.
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