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MN: Metro restaurant workers indicted in credit card scam

Posted on September 2, 2010 by Dissent

Bill McAuliffe reports: Three Twin Cities restaurant workers and four alleged accomplices are facing federal bank fraud charges of capturing the credit card information of local diners and using it to make at least $150,000 in purchases for themselves. The seven were charged by an indictment unsealed Tuesday in federal district court in St. Paul….

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(Follow-up) Secret Service: Computer virus to blame for Jason’s Deli thefts

Posted on September 1, 2010 by Dissent

Janice Broach reports: Investigators believe credit and debit card thefts at the Jason’s Deli on Ridgeway in Memphis are linked to a virus that infected computers at the restaurant. “The computers received a virus that was unknown before this event,” Special Agent Rick Harlow of the U.S. Secret Service said Tuesday. “It was a new…

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Researcher Creates Clearinghouse Of 14 Million Hacked Passwords

Posted on August 26, 2010 by Dissent

Andy Greenberg reports: Canadian researcher Ron Bowes has created a sort of Wall of Sheep for the entire Internet. By simply collecting all the publicly-spilled repositories of users’ passwords from recent hacking incidents, he’s created a clearinghouse for stolen passwords on his Web site–14,488,929 distinct passwords to be exact, collected from 32,943,045 users. Bowes didn’t…

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Blagojevich auction boxes contain client files

Posted on August 26, 2010 by Dissent

Serena Dai of the Associated Press reports: Amidst photos and handwritten letters in auction boxes connected to former Gov. Rod Blagojevich are confidential client-attorney papers from his lawyer days and opposition research on his 2006 gubernatorial race rival Judy Baar Topinka, a Northwestern University librarian said Wednesday. Librarian Jeffrey Garrett bought 18 boxes of files,…

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OH: Woman Charged With Stealing ID of Job-Seekers

Posted on August 26, 2010 by Dissent

The U.S. Attorney’s Office says a woman preyed on people who were down on their luck and looking for work. On Wednesday, prosecutors announced charges against Chantay Ware, 26. Ware was indicted on one count each of access device fraud and aggravated identity theft. According to investigators, Ware worked for HMS Host, which operated the…

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UK: DSG Retail customer credit agreements found in skip

Posted on August 25, 2010 by Dissent

Electronics retailer DSG has been found in breach of the Data Protection Act by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), following the discovery of customers’ credit agreements in or near a skip at one of the company’s PC World stores. The discovery of eight completed credit agreements containing customers’ personal and financial data was made by…

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