Lynn Brezosky reports: A Corpus Christi man who admitted to making fake credit cards using [credit card] receipts stolen from a San Antonio hotel has been sentenced to five years and 10 months in federal prison, federal prosecutors said Wednesday. Steven Reese Clark, 37, also must pay $3,606 in restitution to victims of his fraud….
Category: Business Sector
Cn: Dangdang Freezes Accounts After Hacking Incident
DangDang, a Chinese e-commerce firm that had confirmed a breach in December 2011, is now freezing accounts. Citing the Beijing Daily, CRIEnglish.com reports that the firm shut down all account activity from March 19-22 to give users time to change their account names and passwords following “the incidents.” Dangdang said during an investigation to check…
Hacker, suspected of 6 million user CSDN info leak, detained
Zhao Wen of The Shanghai Daily reports that a suspect has been detained in the CSDN breach that made headlines in December: The suspect surnamed Zeng was held in Wenzhou, eastern Zhejiang Province on February 4 after Beijing police opened an investigation into the case on December 22, the paper said. The leak, considered the…
‘Indian call centres accused of selling Britons’ personal data for as little as two pence’
Deja vu all over again: Indian call centres are selling Britons’ confidential personal data, including credit card information, medical and financial records to criminals and marketing firms for as little as two pence, an undercover investigation has discovered. Two ‘consultants’, claiming to be IT workers at several call centres boasted of possesing 45 different sets…
Inside Telstra’s customer information breach
Darren Pauli has a follow-up piece in SC Magazine on how Telstra responded to a breach it had in December where thousands of customers’ data were exposed online.
TRICARE Financial Fraud Claims Don’t Make Sense
Sang of AlertBoot provides some sharp – and skeptical – commentary on the amended complaint alleging fraudulent charges in a lawsuit against the Department of Defense over the TRICARE breach involving SAIC: Many news feeds are covering nextgov.com‘s story that victims of last year’s TRICARE data breach are reporting fraudulent credit card charges and bank transactions. …