Ellen Messmer reports: Heartland Payment Systems, which last year suffered a devastating data breach, has been on a mission to secure payment-card processing . After introducing the E3 terminal for point-of-sale transactions last May, which has gone into use with about 5,000 Heartland merchant customers for encryption of sensitive cardholder data, Heartland Tuesday introduced yet…
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ND: EGF man accused in ID theft case has ‘dozens’ of local victims
An East Grand Forks man has been arrested on suspicion of stealing the identities of “dozens and dozens” of area residents and applying for credit cards in their names, said Lt. Rahn Farder of the Grand Forks Police Department. The total number of victims is not yet known, but Farder estimates the figure at about…
WI: New information released on ATM fraud investigation
Press release from Eau Claire, Wisconsin police: Eau Claire Police Investigators have new information regarding the credit card scanner that was found at the US Bank ATM on Golf Rd. Investigation has determined that the same individuals may have placed the scanner at the same ATM at about 12:30PM on Friday, 9/17/2010 and picked it…
Security problems reported by ATBHost.net
An administrator ATBHost.net has posted an alert in their forum: On September 28, 2010 at around 3:30 pm US Central Standard Time, there was a flood attack against ATBHost.net MySQL Server. The Attack was from inside the server, before we acquire the company a couple of hackers/crackers with bad intentions were allowed to have a…
Two Sentenced for Accessing President’s Student Loan Records
On August 25, 2010, Mercedes Costoyas, a.k.a., Mercedes Costoyas-Perret, 53, of Iowa City, IA, and John P. Phommivong, 30, of North Liberty, IA, were each sentenced to one year probation for exceeding authorized computer access. The sentencing was announced on September 25 by United States Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt. United States District Judge James E….
(follow-up) Three black market travel agents plead guilty
Beth Phillips, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that three defendants have pleaded guilty to their roles in a conspiracy among black market travel agents who used the stolen identities of thousands of victims as part of a multi-million dollar fraud scheme to purchase airline tickets for their customers. Some…