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,…
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(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…
IA: Would you like a French manicure with your ID theft?
An arrest warrant has been issued for Nam Huu Nguyen, 36, Ames, in connection with a credit card fraud investigation at L&D #1 Nails, 640 S. Monroe Ave. Nguyen is suspected in the theft and fraudulent use of customer’s credit card information during the months of September and October 2010, according to a news release…
(Update) Civic Center credit card breach may be a computer hack
More on a breach first reported here yesterday: Investigators believe the scammers used either a skimming device or a computer hack to steal credit and debit card information from victims that had used their cards at the Onondaga County Civic Center. Police have now heard from more than 60 victims. So far, Syracuse Police say…
How do you say, “Maybe we shouldn’t have stored your credit card data” in Japanese?
The Japan Foundation of Los Angeles recently notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office of a security incident involving an unnamed vendor who hosts their web site at jfalc.org. According the October 21 letter filed by their attorneys, on September 18, JFLA discovered that the names, dates of birth and credit card information for those…