Justin Heinze reports: There have been “numerous” cases of identity theft and credit card fraud in Phoenixville recently, and most of the victims have been patrons of Nudy’s Cafe, according to the Phoenixville Police Department. If you have visited any of the Nudy’s Cafe locations since March and paid with a credit card, police are…
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LA: Customers at Houma buffet victims of $20,000 in credit card fraud
Maki Somosot reports: Multiple customers have lost up to $20,000 after using their credit and debit cards at Houma’s Dynasty Buffet between June 26 and July 3, the Terrebonne sheriff’s office said. Detectives are still counting up the total combined loss. Read more on WWL. So your business accepts credit cards, but you don’t run…
Epic Games forum hacked – change your online passwords, an beware of phishing
Graham Cluley has more about this on HotforSecurity. I wish entities wouldn’t put “we’re down for maintenance” types of messages on their sites when they’re really investigating or attempting to remediate breaches.
NJ: Breakwater Beach security breach puts hundreds of employee documents online
Karin Price Mueller reports: Hundreds of documents containing personal information of some employees at Jenkinson’s Breakwater Beach Waterpark at Casino Pier in Seaside Heights have been available online to anyone who clicks in the right place, Bamboozled has learned. The documents include copies of Social Security cards, driver’s licenses, birth certificates, passports, student IDs, tax forms,…
Insurance Services Office database breached; insurance data accessed
New Jersey-based Insurance Services Office (ISO), a provider of information and analytics to the property and casualty insurance industry, manages a database of insurance information, which includes data on participating insurers’ policyholders. This week, they are notifying an undisclosed number of consumers that an investigation conducted by a county prosecutor’s office in New Jersey confirmed that…
Hacker Gets 13 Years in Prison for Massive International ID Theft
There’s an important update in the case that involved Court Ventures/U.S. Info/Experian, and Dun & Bradstreet, although the government doesn’t name the businesses in its press release. James Eng reports: A Vietnamese national was sentenced to 13 years in prison for hacking into U.S. businesses’ computers, stealing personally identifiably information (PII), and selling to other cybercriminals his fraudulently-obtained…