Andy Newman reports that police suspect an H & R Block employee of misusing customer data to obtain fraudulent refunds. Former customers who have been affected filed a lawsuit against H & R Block this week. Read more in the New York Times.
Category: Business Sector
HBDirect.com customers notified of hack
HBDirect.com suspects that its web site was breached and that customers’ names, addresses, phone numbers, e-mail addresses and credit card numbers were stolen. In a letter to those affected which is not the typical letter I’m used to reading, company principal Paul Ballyk not only explained what an SQL injection attack is, but noted that…
Bar patrons hit with credit card fraud
Peter Cox reports on a breach previously mentioned here. Some credit cards swiped recently at the Mad Capper have been swiped by hackers who’ve racked up charges on those cards from Indiana to Russia. Jeff Chilson, owner of the Mad Capper, said that people who have been at the downtown Stillwater bar/restaurant in the last…
MN: Wave of identity theft hits Stillwater residents
Kevin Giles reports: Credit card numbers stolen from a Stillwater bar and restaurant were being used worldwide Wednesday with charges in some cases approaching $1,200. “Right now there are several victims,” said Police Chief John Gannaway. More people were calling his department in the morning after a Stillwater resident posted a warning on Facebook. Read…
IL: Detectives solve ID thefts; victims ate at same restaurant
Madison County sheriff’s detectives say their big break in solving a string of identity-theft cases was when they learned all four victims dined recently at the same restaurant – Amarillo Tex’s Steakhouse. The information from their credit cards was stolen using a small device called a “skimmer.” Detectives learned that an employee of the restaurant…
Reconsidering the retailers’ attempts to keep their identities secret
Over on The Tech Herald, Steve Ragan takes a somewhat more sympathetic view to J.C. Penney than I have generally taken. Steve writes, in part: Most of the media reports are painting the picture that J.C. Penney suffered a breach and did nothing. That isn’t entirely true. The company cooperated fully when asked and it…