jseattle continues to provide updates to a rash of fraud reports in the area: The investigation into more than 100 reported cases of credit card fraud across Capitol Hill has identified a Broadway restaurant as one “point of interest.” Like the victims who have had their bank and credit accounts hit for fraudulent charges in…
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Laptop stolen from Bare Escentual employee puts employee data at risk
Bare Escentuals of San Francisco has been notifying some current and former employees this week that a laptop stolen from an employee contained their names, addresses, Social Security Numbers, and some salary information. By letter dated Nov. 1 to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office, the firm said that they had “recently” become aware of…
(update) Capitol Hill credit card fraud victim total nears 100, investigators suspect sniffers
jseattle provides the latest update on a string of fraud reports As we were first to report that a Secret Service electronic crimes task force has made a major break in its investigation of a wave of credit card fraud emanating from Capitol Hill, reports of fraudulent charges continue to pile up. More than 40…
IN: Personal Info Found Dumped Outside School
The state is investigating after a box full of personal information was found dumped in a trash bin near a downtown school. …. A recent search turned up a box of payroll stubs from the Thai Cafe in Broad Ripple. […] The stubs, from the year 2000, had been in the possession of Richard Fischer,…
(update) Telstra: privacy breach mail-out was our fault, not printer’s
Daniel Fitzgerald reports: Telstra has said an internal error – not the printer, SEMA – was behind the privacy breach bungle that last week saw around 220,000 letters delivered to wrong addresses. It is understood that SEMA, which handled the printing and mailing of the letter discussing upcoming fixed line price changes, was supplied with…
Andres Correa of Elizabeth given 3 years in prison for identity theft and credit card fraud
A Union County man was sentenced to three years in state prison Friday for his role in a scheme to steal people’s identities and engage in credit card fraud. Andres A. Correa, 30, of Elizabeth, who is also known as Frank Perec, was sentenced by Superior Court Judge Robert J. Mega in Union Elizabeth, according…