Peter Strozniak reports: A consolidated class action lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Atlanta, Ga. Wednesday listed 37 credit unions, 16 state leagues, CUNA and 11 banks that claimed the 2014 Home Depot data breach caused billions of dollars in fraud losses and more than $150 million in card reissuance costs. Read more on Credit Union…
Category: ID Theft
MS Sheriff’s Office Employee Used Stolen IDs to File Fraudulent Tax Returns
United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that a federal grand jury indicted a Mississippi woman for being part of a scheme to file fraudulent income tax returns using stolen identities and causing the refunds to be mailed to post office boxes in Louisiana. Shannon A. Brumfield, 48, of Byram, Miss., was indicted on…
TX: Blue Goose Cantina Linked to Credit Card Theft
Katy Blakey reports that Blue Goose Cantina in McKinney has confirmed a payment card system breach that has impacted customers. In a statement to NBC5, the majority owner of Blue Goose Cantina, Jill Peterson, wrote: Last Wednesday evening we received a complaint from one of our guests that unauthorized charges had been made on his son’s…
JP: Convenience store employee arrested for stealing customers’ credit card info
The Mainichi reports: A convenience store employee suspected of filming customers’ credit cards on his smartphone and using information on the cards to swindle the victims out of money has been arrested, Tokyo police said. […] Daijiro Kamino, 29, a former convenience store employee of Taito Ward, Tokyo, stands accused of fraud using a computer,…
CNN sources: IRS believes massive data theft originated in Russia
Chris Frates reports: The IRS believes that a major cyber breach that allowed criminals to steal the tax returns of more than 100,000 people originated in Russia, two sources briefed on the data theft tell CNN. Read more on CNN. If you bet Russia, drink. If you bet China or North Korea, just be patient,…
Thousands of people’s stolen credit card info found on suspect’s computers
Peter Surowski reports: A San Bernardino man who investigators say had thousands of people’s credit card information on his computers has been arrested. Serob Frenkyan, 42, was arrested on Thursday, May 21, on suspicion of identity theft, credit card fraud and being a felon with a gun, jail records show. Read more on The Press Enterprise.