Ralph Ellis reports: The Governor’s Office of Consumer Affairs is investigating the dumping of boxes of personal information — W-2 forms, bankruptcy files and old checks — into a bin at the Smyrna Recycling Center. The documents included W2 forms for 1998, 1999 and 2000, Social Security numbers and other sensitive personal information, a Smyrna…
Category: Business Sector
Large-scale credit card data robbery in Helsinki
More on a breach covered here previously: The data from as many as 100,000 credit cards were endangered by a security breach, the financial paper Kauppalehti reports. “The Finnish police is investigating the data theft of at least 40,000 credit cards from a computer in a store in Helsinki, reports the Bloomberg news agency. The…
UT: Payment card skimmer secretly planted in gas station pump
Dan Goodin reports on yet another skimming operation involving a gas station, this one in Utah: It was discovered in late January at a 7-Eleven in Sandy, Utah. Police said it may have been actively monitoring transactions for as long as 60 days. It resulted in losses of more than $11,000. Read more in The…
Equifax offers employees free Equifax credit monitoring after SSN exposed in mailing gaffe
After Equifax recently sent out IRS W-2 statements to most of its current employees and some former employees, they discovered that some employees’ control ID numbers were partially or completely viewable in the return address window of the envelope used by the payroll vendor. In an unspecified number of cases for U.S. employees, the control…
(update) 30 reports of ID theft at East Chicago tax service
Leah Hope reports that the number of ID theft victims who all used an H&R Block service is growing: Dozens of East Chicago, Ind., residents who went to H&R Block had their identities stolen, police said. The IRS and East Chicago police are investigating claims that someone got a hold of taxpayers personal information. Thirty…
AL: Debit scam hits Hanceville business
Benjamin Bullard reports: Hanceville police are cautioning residents to be on guard against a sophisticated debit card wire scam that has leached hundreds of thousands of dollars from customers whose card numbers have been stolen remotely from pay terminals at one or more local businesses. The primary target in the theft so far has been…