Meredith Yeomans reports: “Last name Taylor, first name Gary, social security number 569…“ Tom Rezler is a business owner in this Tempe shopping center and can’t believe what he recently found in nearby garbage dumpsters. Thousands of pages of sensitive information apparently disposed of by a neighboring business called The Vine Tavern and Eatery. […]…
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(follow-up) Gallatin Gateway woman gets nearly three years federal prison for fraud and identity theft
A Gallatin Gateway woman was sentenced in federal court Friday to 33 months in prison and three years probation after pleading guilty to credit card fraud and aggravated identity theft earlier this year. U.S. District Judge Donald Malloy also ordered Erin Lee Stewart, 50, to pay $7,185 in restitution to her victims. According to statements…
Employee creates Smucker data exposure jam
When an employee of J.M. Smucker needed assistance on a human resources project, the employee e-mailed the data to a relative who’s a computer programmer for help. Unfortunately, although the programmer’s server is reportedly a secure server, the programmer is not an employee of Smucker’s. Smucker discovered the breach itself through its own monitoring, and…
Former Gas Station Employee Sentenced to Three and a Half Years for Stealing Over 2,000 Credit Card Numbers
United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced Friday that United States District Judge Morrison C. England Jr. sentenced Pavel Abramyan, 27, of Rancho Cordova, to three and a half years in federal prison for possessing stolen credit card numbers. Abramyan pleaded guilty on October 15, 2009. This case was the product of an investigation by…
GA officials: Hacking was outside eatery
Rodney Manly reports: A security breach that has compromised the credit and debit cards of recent customers at the Mellow Mushroom in Warner Robins is believed to have occurred outside the restaurant, police and the restaurant’s lawyer said Friday. “The breach happened either with the computing end of it or at the payment processing center….
Facebook IDs hacker who tried to sell 1.5M accounts
Robert McMillan reports: Facebook has identified the hacker named Kirllos who tried to sell 1.5 million Facebook accounts recently in underground hacking forums. According to the investigators at the social networking site, he’s guilty of both hacking and hyperbole. Kirllos was first spotted by researchers at VeriSign’s iDefense group a few weeks after he claimed…