Eric Weiss reports: Hess said Friday that many of its South Florida gas stations have been targeted by thieves using “skimmer” devices to intercept customers’ credit and debit card information. The local gas stations where the illegal activity took place are in Stuart, Jensen Beach, West Palm Beach and Lake Worth. Read more on TCPalm,…
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OR: Employment applications found in Little Caesars Pizza dumpster in Salem
Tim Becker reports: A stack of applications that contained personal information was discovered in a dumpster outside a pizza store in Salem. A viewer contacted KOIN 6 News after finding applications for employment at a Little Caesars Pizza store in a dumpster behind the business. “Pretty good stack of them [he found],” said Marilyn Peterson whose…
Personal information of Amerigroup clients found in possession of suspect in Florida
According to KLTV, Amerigroup released the following statement yesterday: On February 13, 2014, Amerigroup was made aware that an IRS agent and the Tallahassee, Florida, Police department discovered documents containing protected health information (PHI) in screen prints from an Amerigroup claims system while searching the car of a suspect on January 30, 2014. The documents…
“Weev’s” conviction reversed on appeal
Wow. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit just reversed Andrew Auernheimer (“Weev”)’s conviction – not based on anything to do with the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act issues that defense counsel had raised, but because the court determined that the case never should have been heard in New Jersey. Ars Technica and TechDirt have…
Man faces felony charges in Golden Town Buffet skimming case
Caitlin Morris reports: Twenty-year-old Saihing Chan incurred four felony charges Wednesday in Saratoga County for his alleged role in stealing identities from nearly 80 patrons who ate at a now-closed Glenmont restaurant. At the time of his arrest, he was an inmate at Albany County Jail on an additional 19 identity theft-related felonies he is…
TX: Man allegedly tied to hacker group Anonymous accused of targeting ‘Monitor,’ La Joya ISD, Hidalgo County
Ildefonso Ortiz reports: A Donna man with ties to the international computer hacking group Anonymous is accused of trying to break into various Web servers, including those of Hidalgo County, La Joya ISD and The Monitor. Thursday morning, a somber-looking Fidel Salinas went before Magistrate Judge Peter Ormsby, who informed him of the new accusations presented…