As part of the Federal Trade Commission’s ongoing campaign to protect consumers’ personal information, three companies whose business is reselling consumers’ credit reports have agreed to settle FTC charges that they did not take reasonable steps to protect consumers’ personal information, failures that allowed computer hackers to access that data. The settlements require the companies…
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LA: Credit Card Fraud Ring Involved McDonald’s Employee Who Skimmed Cards
Investigators working as part of the Louisiana Financial Crimes Task Force have concluded a three month investigation into numerous credit card fraud complaints received from St. Tammany Parish residents. The investigation has revealed approximately 57 victims with an estimated financial loss of over $50,000 and has resulted in eight suspects facing numerous fraud charges. During…
NC: Book Store Security Breach Causing Financial Aid Problems For Some ECU Students
Fraudulent charges linked to a breach at the University Book Exchange near East Carolina University continue to show up and the number of irate comments start to pile up. WITN follows up on a breach they reported last week. Almost a month after a security breach was recognized and fixed at a local bookstore near…
UK: Hailsham hacker ordered to pay back £124,000
Ben Parsons reports: A computer hacker from Hailsham who set up frauds to feed a gambling habit has been ordered to pay more than £100,000. Alistair Peckover – described by police as an “obsessive loner” – used websites including Google and BT to steal people’s bank details. […] Peckover, who previously lived in Broadfield, Crawley,…
(follow-up) HuskyDirect.com site still down, some victims report fraud
As a follow-up to a previously reported breach involving a hack of HuskyDirect.com, there are now some reports suggesting that the data may have been misused. Back on January 11, U.Conn had posted a notice to its web site: The UConn Co-op was informed by its vendor that there has been a data security incident involving…
28 million Plenty of Fish users’ personal details hacked – report (updated)
The founder and CEO of dating site Plenty of Fish reports that the site has been hacked and users’ names, email addresses, and passwords may have been acquired. Whether PayPal account information and other personal details were also acquired is uncertain and depends on whose version of the hack you read. It’s also uncertain whether…