CORRECTION: The incident reported in this entry was from 2009. Don’t know how it showed up as news in my newsreader, but my apologies for reporting it again as a new incident and am deleting it.
Category: Business Sector
FL: Customer credit cards compromised at restaurant
Stephanie Kolp reports: At least eight people say they’re the victim of credit card fraud. And the one thing they all have in common is that they all ate at the same restaurant in December. Anthony Valerio was one of those victims. “I realized there was a $77 charge to my account and I didn’t…
NC: Deputies: Windstream employee stole ‘numerous’ customer accounts in fraud
Nathan Hardin reports: A Mt. Pleasant man turned himself in this morning after authorities issued warrants for his arrest. Deputies said he stole “numerous” customer accounts for more than a year while he was working as a Windstream employee. Authorities said Walter Darnell Austin, 45, used the financial information of Windstream internet customers to buy…
Tide fans ordering from Bamastuff.com may have had credit card information stolen
Yvonne T. Betowt reports: University of Alabama fans who bought items from Bamastuff.com between Aug. 1, 2009, and Jan. 16, 2012, are being alerted to contact their banks for possible illegal and unauthorized use of their credit cards. Bamastuff.com has sent out email notifications informing customers about a breach in its database, which was discovered…
(Update) Attorneys General Seek Info about Zappos breach
Concerned about a recent hacking attack that may have affected more than 24 million customers, Attorney General George Jepsen, with support from nine other states, has asked Zappos.com, Inc. about its efforts to protect private customer information and its response to the breach. The Attorney General wrote to the chief executive officer of the on-line…
(Follow-up) Agreement Reached With Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. Over Release of Some Customers’ Personally Identifiable Information
Attorney General George Jepsen and Consumer Protection Commissioner William Rubenstein have reached an agreement with Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. to provide additional protections to the current and former customers whose personal information was made public. Information of current and former MetLife customers was part of a spreadsheet posted to the Internet by an employee of…