Credit card fraud draws two-year sentence

A man who graduated from the University of Saskatchewan this month with a bachelor of arts in philosophy pleaded guilty Wednesday to hacking into a university computer in 2007 and downloading the credit card information of about 3,600 students. Brandon Brian Therens, 25, also admitted committing other frauds and thefts between May and October 2007 using computer technology: He stole hand-held wireless debit machines and gave himself tens of thousands of dollars in refunds; he installed a key-stroke logger on the public computer in a hotel and used the information to take thousands of dollars from a guest's Visa account; he made fake identification; and he withdrew thousands from a bank account that illegally had money electronically transferred in from the account of a Saskatoon restaurant. Posted in: Credit Card Fraud