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Category: ID Theft

ICO failure to punish Lush for data breach sends wrong message, says SecurEnvoy

Posted on August 10, 2011 by Dissent

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…

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(update) Texan gets 4 years for restaurant-related fraud

Posted on August 10, 2011 by Dissent

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…

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VA: Norfolk McDonald’s cashier admits stealing card data

Posted on August 9, 2011 by Dissent

Tim McGlone reports: When Sophia Jacobs worked the drive-thru at the Norfolk Naval Station McDonald’s, she swiped hundreds of customers’ credit or debit cards twice – once through the register and again through a skimmer. She and her friends then went on a shopping spree with those card numbers to the tune of about $50,000,…

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NC: VA worker sentenced for stealing vets’ identities

Posted on August 8, 2011 by Dissent

 A Department of Veterans Affairs worker has been sentenced to 11 years in federal prison for stealing personal information from disabled North Carolina veterans to generate bogus tax returns. Michael Ray Woods, 48, of Fayetteville, was convicted in February of 12 counts of preparing false tax returns, 10 counts of wire fraud, 10 counts of…

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FL: Pasco County diners become credit card fraud victims

Posted on August 7, 2011 by Dissent

Jamie Klein reports: Eight local victims of credit card fraud had one thing in common: They had eaten at the Mugs n’ Jugs restaurant on U.S. 19 in Port Richey before noticing fake charges on their cards. Authorities say former Mugs n’ Jugs waitress Kathryn Shana’e Perez used a “skimmer,” a scanning device that captures…

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Officials: S.J. ringmaster used inside help to steal more than $200K from TD Bank customer accounts

Posted on August 7, 2011 by Dissent

Jim Walsh reports: For more than two years, Kashon Adade sent many customers to TD Bank offices in South Jersey, authorities say. But all that business wasn’t welcome. Investigators claim Adade ran a bank-fraud ring that relied on insider help and identity theft to drain about $200,000 from the accounts of unsuspecting TD Bank customers….

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