The Tyler Chicken Express employee who skimmed customers’ card numbers for others to use in an ID theft ring has been sentenced to two years in prison for her role. KYTX reports: Elizabeth Pickrell, 25, has also been ordered to pay restitution totally more than $95,000 to her victims. […] In Tyler alone, more than…
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Update, Iowa – MasterCard issues local security alert
Bob Eschliman reports more on a recent breach disclosure in Iowa: The MasterCard Fraud Management department has been notified of a security breach of a U.S. merchant’s network. A data security firm has been engaged to conduct an onsite forensic investigation. This alert discloses the payment account numbers of MasterCard accounts that were potentially exposed…
CO: Loveland police trace some credit card fraud reports to Metrolux
Coloradoan.com reports: Loveland police said some of the 1,180 recent credit and debit card fraud reports can be traced to a breach at the Loveland Metrolux 14 Theatres. The investigation into the reports, which surged last month, identified common locations where the cards were legally used before the fraudulent transactions, according to a police news…
Hi5ads and Bangla TV hacked; user data dumped
Noticed on Pastebin today: Hi5ads.com was reportedly hacked on October 29 via SQL injection by those identifying themselves as “3xp1r3 cyber army.” The data dump includes 5,065 entries from the “mero_classified” database consisting of usernames, clear-text passwords, e-mail addresses, phone numbers, and names. In a separate data dump, the group lists 3,149 clear-text passwords and…
IE: Personnel files found dumped in industrial estate
Ralph Riegel reports: Files containing confidential information on private security staff were discovered in a box left unattended in an industrial estate. An investigation by the Data Protection Agency (DPA) is now under way into the discovery of files at Frankfield Industrial Estate in Cork. The files were removed by Cork County Council officials yesterday…
Wells Fargo manager, Best Buy clerk charged with stealing identities of 9 people
Sergio Bichao reports: Two former employees of a Wells Fargo bank in Warren and a Best Buy in Union are facing charges of stealing the identities of nine people to open fake credit cards and ring up more than $29,000 in purchases. Tinaud Garcon, 21, of Union in Union County, and Thomas Alexis, 30, of…