Josh White reports: Three servers at the Cheesecake Factory restaurant on Wisconsin Avenue in the District allegedly stole credit card numbers from patrons as part of a scheme that racked up more than $117,000 in fraudulent charges between 2008 and last year, authorities say. Investigators with the U.S. Secret Service allege the servers were working…
Category: Business Sector
OR: Sales files of PDX boat firm left in Dumpster
A tip to KGW led to the discovery of a Dumpster full of personal financial information of past customers of Staff Jennings boats in Southwest Portland. Some files went back 20 years, including a boat purchased by David Moravik, who called the carelessness “unprofessional.” Better Business Bureau spokeswoman Kyle Kavas said it’s the law for…
Aldaco’s issues credit card breach alert
Aldaco’s has posted a notice on its web site, as noticed and first reported by MySanAntonio.com: Dear Customers, Our business has been another senseless victim of breach of data. Authorities have investigated and have clearly determined that the breach was not the result of any wrong doings by an in-house employee or management. We have…
Hacker steals 22,000 email address, demands Astley tune
Loek Essers reports: Dutch hacker Darkc0ke hijacked a radio station database containing 22,000 email addresses and threatened to publish them unless the station play Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up,” a variation of an internet meme known as “rickrolling.” Last weekend Darkc0ke mailed DJs from the Dutch nationwide radio station 3FM and issued his…
AZ: Valley restaurant dumps years worth of sensitive information in dumpster
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. […]…
(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…