Matovu Abdallah Twaha reports: An Arab man working for a major electronic company in Dubai was arrested for stealing customers’ credit card information and using it to buy expensive products from the same company. Director of Electronic Investigations at the Criminal Investigations Department (CID), Maj. Saeed Al Hajiri said they were informed in July about…
Category: ID Theft
Update on Gallatin, TN card fraud
Law enforcement continues to shield the name of a breached business in Gallatin, Tennessee, even though they acknowledge that past customers might still become victims. Sarah Kingsbury reports, in part: To date, Gallatin police have received 203 fraud reports related to the outbreak, with the majority of charges showing up on bank and credit card…
VA: Amherst store owner reacts to becoming victim of international hacking
Hmmm… one I missed in April, it seems. Justin Ward reports: It’s a practice many of us do daily: use our credit card. Now dozens of people at one Amherst County store are discovering they’re victims of credit card theft. The computer system at Country Corner Market was hacked, compromising the information of 125 customers. …
Former waiter charged with stealing credit card numbers
Ruben Castaneda reports: A former waiter at a TGI Fridays restaurant in Laurel was indicted Thursday on charges he copied and sold the numbers of 73 credit cards, Prince George’s authorities said. Brian K. Adams, 21, of Elkridge, was indicted on 16 charges, including theft, identity theft, and conspiracy to commit theft, State’s Attorney Angela…
ICO failure to punish Lush for data breach sends wrong message, says SecurEnvoy
Warwick Ashford reports: The failure of the Information Commissioner’s Office to impose a monetary penalty against cosmetics firm Lush – for failing to protect thousands of customer records from hackers – sends out all the wrong messages, according to authentication firm SecurEnvoy. “What we have here is a major e-commerce web portal – run by a…
(update) Texan gets 4 years for restaurant-related fraud
This is a follow-up to a breach previously covered on this blog in December 2010. Associated Press reports: An East Texas man has been sentenced to four years in prison over credit card numbers scammed from a restaurant and the Internet. The U.S. attorney’s office says 26-year-old Christopher Michael of Malakoff pleaded guilty in May…