United States v. Jeremy Frazier, et al.
Case Information
In 2008, Heartland Payment Systems, Inc., a credit/debit/prepaid card payment processing company, experienced a massive data breach resulting in the exposure of personal information associated with over 100 million credit and debit card transactions.
On March 3, 2009, a federal grand jury in the Northern District of Florida returned a 16 count indictment against Jeremy Frazier, Tony Acreus, Timothy Johns, Todd Warthen and John Honore. The charges arose out of an investigation conducted by the U.S. Secret Service and the Leon County Sheriff's Department in Tallahassee, FL.
The indictment alleges that the above named defendants, and others, conspired to obtain approximately two-hundred (200) stolen credit card and debit card account numbers belonging to victims throughout the country whose account information was fraudulently stolen in the data breach described above.
The indictment alleges that conspirators transferred the fraudulently obtained account information onto other credit cards, debit cards, and gift cards, and thereby produced counterfeit credit cards, debit cards, and gift cards, which they used to purchase merchandise and gift cards from various retailers in the Northern District of Florida.
Heartland Payment Systems, Inc. has posted additional information concerning the security breach at http://www.2008breach.com/
For up-to-date information regarding this case, please visit http://www.notify.usdoj.gov. You will need you Victim Identification Number (VIN) and Personal Identification Number (PIN) to access the system. This information was provided to you in the letter you received by our office.
A copy of the Indictment can be found at this link INDICTMENT(The free Adobe Acrobat Reader is required to view the document ).
If you need additional information, please email Kelli Dougherty, Victim Witness Specialist at usafln.vwap@usdoj.gov.
An indictment is merely a formal charge by the grand jury. Each defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty in United States District Court.