Jennifer Reading reports: WILLISTON, Vt. – “His card was used at Publix supermarkets in Boynton Beach, Florida-area 14 times in one day,” Richmond Police Chief Alan Buck said. In the last 48 hours, Chief Buck has been flooded with complaints about credit and debit card fraud. Vermont victims report their accounts are being wiped out…
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Two sentenced for role in Michaels Stores data theft and misuse
Two southern California men were sentenced in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in Oakland for their roles in a scheme to defraud nearly 1,000 debit card holders by using stolen bank account information to withdraw money from ATMs. Eduard Arakelyan, 21, and Arman Vardanyan, 23, were each sentenced yesterday to…
Ca: Langford pub hit by second security breach
Derek Spalding reports that a pub that had its payment system hacked due to a faulty firewall has also had problems with card skimmers: The passwords and debit-card numbers of at least five people have been stolen from customers of Langford’s Station House Pub, which has been hit by two security breaches in the past…
Florida Tax Preparer Sentenced to Federal Prison for Stolen Identity Refund Fraud
Ernst Pierre, a Port St. Lucie, Fla., tax preparer, was sentenced today to 51 months in federal prison for wire fraud and aggravated identity theft, the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service – Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) announced. Pierre was charged with a scheme to file false federal income tax returns using stolen identity information. Pierre…
Gamigo breach exposed 8.24 million passwords, and now they’re public
JR Brookwalter reports: Gamigo, an online game publisher based in Germany, was the subject of a security breach back in late February – but apparently, the worse was yet to come. After notifying its customers about the security breach back on March 1 via email, the email addresses and encrypted passwords of all 8.24 million…
Former RadioShack employee sentenced for ID theft
The Associated Press has an update to a case that began in 2007: A former RadioShack Corp. call center worker has been sentenced to more than six years in prison for identity theft. Prosecutors in North Texas say Youlanda Rochelle Wright used the information to file false income tax returns and claim refunds. Wright had…