WZZM reports: The Montcalm County Sheriff’s Department is warning of a data breach potentially affecting dozens of customers. Investigators say thieves hacked into the Carson Village Market server and accessed customers’ credit and debit card information. Multiple people have called police to report their credit card numbers were used to make purchases in southeast Michigan…
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CO: Heath receives sentence for identity theft, tax fraud
Marija B. Vader reports: Randall Vannoy Heath, 52, of Colorado Springs was sentenced Feb. 18 to serve 84 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release. Heath was found guilty of aggravated identity theft and for filing a false claim with the Internal Revenue Service, according to a U.S. Department of Justice…
OR: Office landlord fined after trashing mortgage records in course of eviction
Eliot Njus reports: The owners of a Northeast Portland office building have been fined after a state regulator said its cleaning service threw 30 boxes of mortgage records into an unlocked trash bin while evicting a mortgage company. The Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services has ordered 122nd Group LLC to pay $5,000 for failing to…
An update regarding your REDcard and the data breach
Ken Hess, a Target customer, received an update letter about the Target breach which he posted in its entirety on ZDNet. There is really nothing particularly new in the letter, other than Target says they (still) have no evidence of any misuse of their branded RED cards and only a “low amount” of misuse of…
Neiman Marcus Missed 60,000 Alerts As Hackers Stole Credit Card Info
Ben Elgin, Dune Lawrence, and Michael Riley report: The hackers who raided the credit-card payment system of Neiman Marcus Group (NMG) set off alerts on the company’s security systems about 60,000 times as they slunk through the network, according to an internal company investigation. The hackers moved unnoticed in the company’s computers for more than eight months, sometimes…
PA: Company claims info was stolen
Joe Pinchot reports: A Pine Township company has filed a civil racketeering and conspiracy suit alleging an ex-employee downloaded company information, including customer lists, software instructions and internal drawings, and gave the information to his new employer, a competing firm. Pine Instrument Co.’s ex-employee, Gordon Baker, said he downloaded the information while still employed by…