Scott Davis reports: Computer hackers have stolen credit card information from patrons of the Grand Avenue parking ramp in downtown Lansing. One of the ramp’s owner is urging users to replace their cards. Shawn Elliott, an owner of the ramp, said he shut down the ramp’s credit card processing system Friday after a patron told…
Category: ID Theft
Card Breaches at Car Washes
Brian Krebs reports: An investigation into a string of credit card breaches at dozens of car wash locations across the United States illustrates the challenges facing local law enforcement as they seek to connect the dots between cybercrime and local gang activity that increasingly cross multiple domestic and international borders. Read more on KrebsOnSecurity.com. Some of the…
Ca: Henry v Bell Mobility: Another Federal Court case shows PIPEDA damages are hardly worth pursuing absent evidence of actual harm
Canadian privacy lawyer David T.S. Fraser writes: The Federal Court, in the recently issued decision in Henry v Bell Mobility 2014 FC 555 (not yet on CanLII or the Court’s site) has awarded a very modest sum of damages to a customer of Bell Mobility whose phone account was accessed by an impostor. At the hearing…
Calgary identity theft, mail theft investigation leads to charges against duo
Not as sexy, but never forget the risk from low-tech data theft. Jo Ann Lawrence reports: Garbage bags full of stolen mail along with bank statements, credit and debit cards found by Calgary Police in a southeast Calgary hotel room in May have resulted in dozens of charges against a Calgary duo. On May 12,…
Illinois Attorney General Madigan Indicts Married Couple for Scheme to Access Retirement Funds by Submitting Children’s Fake Death Certificates, Stealing Coworkers IDs
June 11 – Attorney General Lisa Madigan today announced charges against former Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) employees for a scheme to steal thousands of dollars from the agency’s deferred compensation program that involved submitting fake death certificates for their living children and stealing the identities of former coworkers. Donella Anderson Watkins, 41, of Lansing, was…
Craftsman Book’s Credit Card Files Hacked
While I was away at PLSC, Jeanne Price of idRADAR reported: An estimated 11,000 home improvement contractors and do-it-yourselfers who bought products from Craftsman-book.com can expect a data breach alert in their mailbox or email Inbox soon. “May 27, we discovered unauthorized activity on a website maintained by our company, Craftsman Book Company. On May 28 we…