A Fayette County business said it has discovered that about $33,950 was missing last month from its payroll account through First Niagara Bank, apparently transferred via a computer that was traced to an Internet provider in Europe, state police at Uniontown reported. […] Wachovia Bank, based in Charlotte, was contacted about the transferred $29,000. Police…
Category: ID Theft
GA: Arrest made in ID theft case
The Flowery Branch Police Department is investigating an identity theft case that may stretch across the South and involve an estimated $100,000 in fraudulent credit card use. […] Officers ended up charging Lecresha S. Dudley, 27, of Oakland, Calif., with one count of transaction card fraud, one count of forgery of a transaction card, two…
Doherty Hotel’s database fraudulently accessed; 150 credit cards subject of probe
Cindy Cranmer reports: More than 150 credit card holders who frequented a local business that had its database accessed have seen fraudulent charges appear on their cards in a case that is being investigated by the U.S. Secret Service, according to authorities. It was determined in the ongoing investigation that the “location that was compromised”…
JP: Hackers steal customer data by accessing supermarket database
Hackers stole customer data from eight online supermarkets in Japan, including Uny Co. and Neo Beat Co., in July using a hacking technique called SQL injection to access their databases, sources familiar with the matter said Friday. A source close to Neo Beat, which also operates the websites of these online supermarkets, said it believes…
OK: Customers’ credit information stolen at local restaurant
Joleen Chaney reports: A popular restaurant in the western Oklahoma is the latest target of a fraudulent high-tech scheme used to steal the credit card numbers customers. […] Schumacher says his customers’ card information has never been stored on their computers but was stolen as it passed through the system. “It grabs the number as…
NJ man indicted for wire fraud
A New Jersey man was indicted today in federal court with stealing $250,000 from two Massachusetts victims’ joint investment account by using a series of assumed identities. Bryan Wells, 26, was charged in an indictment with wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. He had been arrested on a criminal complaint alleging wire fraud on July…