Yvonne T. Betowt reports: University of Alabama fans who bought items from Bamastuff.com between Aug. 1, 2009, and Jan. 16, 2012, are being alerted to contact their banks for possible illegal and unauthorized use of their credit cards. Bamastuff.com has sent out email notifications informing customers about a breach in its database, which was discovered…
Category: ID Theft
Follow-up: 8 years for last conspirator in ’09 credit fraud
Kaitlyn Walsh reports: The last of seven Minnesotans involved in a 2009 credit-card fraud scheme that targeted restaurant patrons was sentenced Thursday in federal court in St. Paul. […] The conspirators included workers from the Olive Garden, two Wendy’s restaurants and the Split Rock Grill in Bloomington, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. All seven…
WV: Bank says Va. company failed to prevent ID theft (update1)
Here’s another breach I hadn’t heard about. Interesting to see the bank suing the firm for negligence in security. Kyla Asbury reports: The Bank of Charles Town is suing N/L Entertainment after it claims the company failed to prevent the theft of debit card and credit information of its customers at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas…
Stratfor updates those affected: will be offering free credit monitoring services and will be boosting security
The following was provided to DataBreaches.net by one of the recipients: From: “STRATFOR” Date: December 25, 2011 3:49:06 PM MST To: [redacted] Subject: Update on Security Issues Reply-To: “STRATFOR” View on Mobile Phone | Read the online version. Dear Stratfor Member, On December 24th an unauthorized party disclosed personally identifiable information and related credit card…
Stratfor’s privacy policy
I was stunned to read that credit card numbers were stored in clear text on Stratfor’s servers. So I pulled up a cached copy of their Privacy Policy as it appeared on December 19th: Privacy Policy STRATFOR Enterprises LLC , publisher of STRATFOR, and its affiliates (hereafter referred to collectively as “STRATFOR”) are committed to…
Stratfor.com hacked: 200GB e-mail, tens of thousands of credit card numbers stolen from global intelligence firm (Update7)
Looks like Anonymous/#AntiSec massively hacked Stratfor, while mocking statements the firm had made. The hackers also dumped what may be their corporate subscribers list. In a tweet earlier today, @anonymousSabu wrote: stratfor.com “global intelligence” company owned and rm’d. Go to it now. See the defacement. Over 90k CCs from LEAs leaked. OUCH I have not yet…