Katie Sanders and Kameel Stanley report: A St. Petersburg man has been charged with stealing customers’ credit card numbers from a marketing company he worked for to buy nearly $30,000 in dinners, limos and other luxuries. After a four-month investigation, deputies arrested Christopher Albert Fregapane, 25, of 4544 40th Ave. N on a felony charge…
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Minn. restautant worker accused of stealing credit card data, police search for second suspect
Boyd Huppert reports: In the end it was just too big a coincidence to ignore. Several people with fraudulent charges on their credit cards had all eaten at the T.G.I. Friday’s in Coon Rapids and had all been waited on by the same server. That server was arrested Thursday at his home in Coon Rapids,…
Daedalus Books notifies online customers of security breach
Daedalus Books has notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that in December, it had discovered that there had been unauthorized access to a database with customer information including names, addresses, and credit card numbers. The breach affected only those customers who placed orders on the company’s web site between August 25, 2009 and November…
Galeton web site with customer credit card data hacked
Gloves, Inc. d/b/a Galeton, notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office on February 8 that its web site had been the victim of what appeared to be a “brute force attack.” The hackers reportedly were potentially able to access customer information including name, address, credit card number and expiration date. Although the total number of…
ING Fund client data exposed on the web for 18 months
On January 25, when an ING customer discovered that she could access client information on the ingfunds.com web site, she notified her stockbroker. In investigating the situation, ING discovered that since August 2008, a file containing the names, addresses, Social Security numbers, and account numbers of 106 ING shareholders had been available on the web…
UK: East Lancashire councils in data protection mix-up
Sam Chadderton reports: Two East Lancashire Councils have been accused of unlawfully processing personal details after a data protection mix-up. Hyndburn Borough Council and Ribble Valley Borough Council both failed to renew registrations with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) register of data controllers. Any organisation using personal information about the public must be registered. It…