Investigators are asking the patrons of three Southern Nevada Businesses to monitor their bank and credit card accounts in the wake of a recent fraud investigation. […] Arrested at his residence was Gevorg Gorj Kegeyan, 53 years of age of Las Vegas. Kegeyan was charged with fraudulent use of a credit card. In addition to…
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AU: Crackdown on telco privacy after Vodafone bungle
Ben Grubb reports: Vodafone’s recent breach of privacy laws has triggered a check on all other telcos by the communications regulator, which is concerned poor practices are more widespread. One telco source said that Vodafone’s recent privacy woes had attracted significant scrutiny from the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA), and the industry was being…
Winamp forums attacked, accounts and email addresses exposed
Samuel Gibbs reports: Hackers have broken through security protecting the Winamp forum database, compromising the user forums, exposing accounts and email addresses in the process. In a post on the company’s forum, Winamp’s General Manager, Geno Yoham, explained that an attack was quickly detected and isolated to the Winamp forum database, protecting the rest of…
AA employee accused of stealing credit card numbers
A former American Airlines employee at Mineta San Jose International Airport is facing 66 felony charges for allegedly stealing and using customer credit card numbers. Prosecutors claim Micheline Johnson, 49, of Concord, skimmed customers’ credit card numbers for several years while she worked as a customer service agent. They say she used those numbers on…
No Evidence Of Online Records Breach By Vodafone Claims Privacy Commission
David Richards reports: The Australian Privacy Commissioner who recently initiated an investigation into claims that Vodafone billing and call records for up to four million customers were openly available online has concluded that Vodafone did not have adequate levels of security in place to protect personal information, however there was no breach as claimed by…
Mixed findings in Privacy Commissioner’s Vodafone report
Tim Lohman reports: The Privacy Commissioner’s report into the alleged privacy breach of some four million Vodafone customers’ billing and call records has found failings on the telco’s behalf. The report noted two key areas of the National Privacy Principles, NPP 2.1 and NPP 4.1, which applied to the incident. NPP 2.1 states that organisations…