The Chicago Tribune reports: As the Aldi grocery chain removes suspect ATM terminals from some of its stores, police in Wheeling said they’re still trying to unravel the source of unauthorized withdrawals that add up to more than $130,000 taken from customers at the Wheeling Aldi store alone. […] More than 200 debit card owners,…
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(Follow-up) Credit Card Skimming Suspect Pleads Guilty
Following up on a case reported previously: Gabriel Camara, 36, of Washington, D.C., pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit bank fraud and aggravated identity theft. Camara and a co-conspirator, Nicole Ward, paid servers at several local restaurants to capture customers’ credit card numbers on skimmers, officials said. The stolen information was then given to others…
Security problems reported by ATBHost.net
An administrator ATBHost.net has posted an alert in their forum: On September 28, 2010 at around 3:30 pm US Central Standard Time, there was a flood attack against ATBHost.net MySQL Server. The Attack was from inside the server, before we acquire the company a couple of hackers/crackers with bad intentions were allowed to have a…
(follow-up) Three black market travel agents plead guilty
Beth Phillips, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that three defendants have pleaded guilty to their roles in a conspiracy among black market travel agents who used the stolen identities of thousands of victims as part of a multi-million dollar fraud scheme to purchase airline tickets for their customers. Some…
Will ACS:Law become the first to feel the hammer of the ICO?
Peter Griffiths of Reuters reports: Britain’s privacy watchdog said on Tuesday it will investigate reports that hackers broke into a law firm’s computers and leaked the details of thousands of Sky broadband customers alleged to have shared pornographic films. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said it would check whether London-based ACS:Law breached the Data Protection…
UK: Thousands more exposed on ACS:Law file-sharing lists
Daniel Emery reports that the number of people affected by the ACS:Law breach is rising: The personal details of a further 8,000 people alleged to have shared music or films illegally have appeared online. A list of more than 8,000 Sky broadband subscribers and a second of 400 PlusNet users surfaced following a security breach…