Ben Nelms reports: A Tyrone woman has been charged with 116 counts of financial identity fraud after selling the personal information of members of Georgia National Guard unit where she was employed. Tierney A. Walker, 22, of Village Green Circle, was charged with 116 counts of financial identity fraud, according to Fayette County Sheriff Barry…
Category: ID Theft
IN: AG Zoeller, Sen. Merritt propose legislation to protect Hoosiers from identity theft, data breaches
Press release: In response to growing concerns about online privacy and data protection, Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller today announced a legislative proposal to provide greater safeguards of Hoosiers’ personal and financial information online. Zoeller’s proposal has three main components aimed at providing stricter requirements for the safe storage of sensitive data, reducing harm to…
Staples Provides Update on Data Security Incident: 1.6M potentially affected
From their press release: FRAMINGHAM, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Staples, Inc. (Nasdaq: SPLS) today gave an update on the investigation into its previously announced data security incident involving a small percentage of its retail point-of-sale systems. Staples’ data security experts detected that criminals deployed malware to some point-of-sale systems at 115 of its more than 1,400 U.S. retail…
Presidian Hotels & Resorts releases information about data breach investigation
Visalia, California (December 19, 2014): Officials of Presidian Hotels & Resorts (Presidian), an independent hotel management company, announce the suspected breach of the point-of-sale system from the period July 26, 2014 – September 2, 2014 at food and beverage outlets such as the restaurant at the Visalia Marriott at the Convention Center Hotel, in Visalia,…
Banks: Park-n-Fly Online Card Breach
Brian Krebs reports: Multiple financial institutions say they are seeing a pattern of fraud that indicates an online credit card breach has hit Park-n-Fly, an Atlanta-based offsite airport parking service that allows customers to reserve spots in advance of travel via an Internet-based reservation system. The security incident, if confirmed, would be the latest in a string…
More parking facilities affected by DataPark breach
More on the DataPark breach previously noted on this blog as impacting customers of the St. Louis Parking Company in Missouri: ABM Parking Services, Inc. announced that Datapark, a vendor that provides and maintains point of service software for several Chicago parking facilities managed by ABM Parking, confirmed a data security incident. This incident may involve certain customer…