Mechele Cooper reports: Kennebec Savings Bank has informed 1,500 customers their debit card numbers may have been compromised in a security breach. Bank officials blamed the breach on credit card companies’ failure to police the merchants that use their cards. The breach was reported to bank officials by MasterCard. Mark Johnston, bank president and CEO,…
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WA: Tobacco shop owner sentenced in debit card scam
A former Redmond tobacco shop owner was sentenced to 33 months in prison Friday for skimming information from hundreds of customers’ credit and debit cards, then siphoning money, federal officials said. U.S. District Judge Ricardo Martinez also sentenced Redmond resident Hrant “Mike” Aslanyan, 38, to five years of supervised release. He ordered him to pay…
Blaine Man Pleads Guilty to Sabotaging Former Employer’s Computer System
Slightly off-topic because no PII seems to have been involved, but suppose he had decided to capture transactions instead of just crashing the system? A 21-year-old Blaine man pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in connection with sabotaging his former employer’s computer system after being terminated. David Ernest Everett Jr. pleaded guilty to one count…
ACLU questions massive ID theft case in Greeley
Howard Pankratz reports: A probe of one of the biggest identity theft cases in Colorado history will be undertaken by two grand juries although the ACLU of Colorado says it is “highly likely” it will challenge the legality of the investigation. The grand jury probe stems from the seizure last October of 4,900 tax files…
Nabbed over credit card fraud
A Malaysian man wanted in the United States for credit card fraud amounting to US$150 million (S$223 million) was arrested by the Thai authorities and US Secret Service agents on Tuesday. According to local media, the man, whom Post Today identified as Gooi Kok Seng, was nabbed on the outskirts of Bangkok. Police said a…
NC: Lost BRCA hard drive contains 300 social security numbers
Julie N. Chang reports: Approximately 300 people’s Social Security numbers are on an external computer hard drive missing from Blue Ridge Community Action, 800 N. Green St. BRCA Executive Director Mattie Patterson said the hard drive contains information on clients from four counties who have used the organization’s services in the past four or five…