Several H&M stores in Sweden have discovered so-called skimming devices on their card readers in Linköping, Täby, Löddeköpinge and Malmö. The stores have since made police reports. On Wednesday morning, staff discovered a skimming device on the card reader at one of the counters at the store in the Mobilia mall in Malmö. Anyone who…
Category: Business Sector
Richmond tax preparer sentenced to 3 years, 3 months for ID theft, fraud
The Associated Press reports that a former employee at The Tax Complex has been sentenced to prison for using clients’ information to open credit accounts. Read more here.
Financial information leaked from local credit card transactions
Laura Ann Sills reports: A WTVM viewer tipped us off to a website that had personal data, including credit card information, about him, and 50 other people. The list was a Google cache with a list of 60 customers of The Loft and Comedy Club in downtown Columbus that purchased tickets at the club from…
Lincoln National Life Insurance notifies over 26,000 of breach after user/pass distributed in brochure and on the web
Through its attorneys, Lincoln Life Insurance notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office of a breach affecting over 26,000 clients of Lincoln National Life Insurance and Lincoln Life and Annuity Company of New York. On February 26, the company was notified by a vendor that a username and password combination reserved for authorized brokers and…
Coffee shop’s employee arrested over credit card fraud in Jakarta
The National police’s special crimes unit has arrested a credit card fraud suspect, identified as DDB, 26, an employee with the US-based Starbucks coffee shop in Jakarta. The unit chief Sr. Comr. Winston Tommy Watuliu said the suspect, a university graduate, collected data of the credit cards from the coffee shop customers’ receipts, as quoted…
Turks hack Israeli account details
Nitzan Sadan reports: Turkish hackers have obtained the passwords and credit card details of 32,561 Israeli users, the Israeli We-CMS blog says. According to the blog, a Turkish message board has uploaded a list containing credit card details, PayPal and bank usernames and passwords. The list is also said to contain more than 140 passwords…