California-based Bistro Burger is notifying customers of a payment card breach via notices on their web site and legal notices in the Los Angeles Times and the San Francisco Chronicle. Copies of the notices have been submitted to the California Attorney General’s web site. The breach reportedly affects one of their four locations. Legal Notices:…
Category: ID Theft
TX: Nassau Bay nurse accused of stealing hospital employees’ information
Anoushah Rasta reports: A Houston-area nurse has been arrested and charged with credit card abuse for allegedly stealing personal information and using it to open credit cards in other people’s names. Toni McGragh Terry, 44 is accused of stealing the personal information of hospital employees and possibly of patients. Police would not reveal the name…
Point-of-Sale Vendor NEXTEP Probes Breach
Brian Krebs reports: NEXTEP Systems, a Troy, Mich.-based vendor of point-of-sale solutions for restaurants, corporate cafeterias, casinos, airports and other food service venues, was recently notified by law enforcement that some of its customer locations have been compromised in a potentially wide-ranging credit card breach, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. The acknowledgement came in response to reports by sources in…
Alabama And Georgia Residents Sentenced To Prison For Their Participation In $3 Million Identity Theft Scheme
A Phenix City, Alabama, resident was sentenced yesterday to serve 111 months in prison for her role in a more than $3 million Stolen Identity Refund Fraud (SIRF) tax scheme. Carnesha Alexander was also sentenced to three years of supervised release and ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $840,692. On Feb. 5, a…
IRS’s Top Ten Identity Theft Prosecutions
Continuing its enforcement push against refund fraud and identity theft, the Internal Revenue Service announced the Top Ten Identity Theft Prosecutions for Fiscal Year 2014 (FY14). The ongoing efforts to bring identity thieves to justice remains a significant priority as part of the IRS’s comprehensive identity theft strategy focusing on preventing, detecting and resolving identity…
NC: Nurse, pastor’s wife pleads guilty to ID theft
Diane Turbyfill reports: A Belmont woman used her position as a nurse and pastor’s wife to defraud two elderly people. Deborah Costner Taylor pleaded guilty in court Friday to identity theft and obtaining property by false pretense. […] She is married to the pastor of East Belmont Baptist Church and worked at CaroMont Regional Medical…