Coloradoan.com reports: Loveland police said some of the 1,180 recent credit and debit card fraud reports can be traced to a breach at the Loveland Metrolux 14 Theatres. The investigation into the reports, which surged last month, identified common locations where the cards were legally used before the fraudulent transactions, according to a police news…
Category: ID Theft
Wells Fargo manager, Best Buy clerk charged with stealing identities of 9 people
Sergio Bichao reports: Two former employees of a Wells Fargo bank in Warren and a Best Buy in Union are facing charges of stealing the identities of nine people to open fake credit cards and ring up more than $29,000 in purchases. Tinaud Garcon, 21, of Union in Union County, and Thomas Alexis, 30, of…
CO: 100s of credit cards hacked
Shane Benjamin reports: The Durango Police Department is warning residents about a large-scale debit- and credit-card fraud that occurred last month and earlier this month at Mama’s Boy Italian Ristorante. All credit and debit cards used at the restaurant between early August and mid-October were sent to a computer hacker, said Joe Farmer, investigator with…
FL: Ocala Police Officer Arrested In Identity Theft Scheme
An Ocala police officer and several other people were arrested in an elaborate identity theft scheme, police said. Investigators said officer Dana Brown collected the personal information of about 149 drivers so that others in the scheme could open 184 bank accounts to cash fraudulent tax return checks. Police said Brown accessed the information in…
IA: Clarinda Bank Iowa customers notified of data breach
Bob Eschliman reports that Clarinda Bank has been notifying some customers that their debit cards may have been compromised. The breach does not involve the bank and the entity that was breached was not named. As is often the case, the bank probably does not know where the breach was. Maybe we’ll find out sometime.
Parolee Found in Possession of 300,000 Consumer Profiles Sentenced to 8 Years in Federal Prison for Identity Theft
LOS ANGELES – A man who was on parole for identity theft when he participated in a second identity theft scheme that resulted in authorities recovering 300,000 consumer profiles has been sentenced to eight years in federal prison. Robert Delgado Jr., 40, of Monterey Park, was sentenced yesterday by United States District Judge R. Gary…