Jaikumar Vijayan reports: A lawsuit consolidating 16 separate class-action complaints brought by financial institutions against Heartland Payment Systems Inc. has been filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas. […] The amended complaint includes for the first time several statements that Heartland is alleged to have made regarding the controls it had…
Category: ID Theft
Lawsuit: Heartland Knew Data Security Standard was ‘Insufficient’
Linda McClasson reports: Months before announcing the Heartland Payment Systems (HPY) data breach, company CEO Robert Carr told industry analysts that the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) was an insufficient protective measure. This is the contention of a new master complaint filed in the class action suit against Heartland, which in January…
3 accused of stealing diners’ credit card IDs
Robert Moran reports: Three Philadelphia men were indicted yesterday on charges of illegally using the credit and debit cards of customers of two city restaurants by recruiting servers and other workers to steal their account information and then using it to create false – but functioning – cards. According to the federal grand jury indictment,…
Suspected Identity Theft Ring Leader Arrested
It seems like we were just talking about paper breaches and ID theft. Oh yeah, we were. Here’s another case from WFTV News today: A Seminole County man was arrested Wednesday night for allegedly stealing mail and using that information to make fake I.D.s and checks. Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) agents arrested Leonard…
AU: One in five fall victim to ID theft
Nick Gardner reports: The identity crimes report, which was commissioned by credit company Veda Advantage and conducted by Galaxy Research, found more than 1.5 million people’s credit cards had been skimmed and 1.2 million people’s bank accounts were illegally accessed. Many more people’s mail containing PINs and other information that can be used to create…
Canada: Two Brampton men charged in identity thefts
Tamara Baluja reports: Two men have been arrested in a major identity theft case that spread across the country, says the RCMP. The Mounties’ GTA Commercial Crime Section recovered “hundreds of thousands of dollars” worth of driver’s licences, credits cards, debit cards and cheques, said Inspector Art Pittman. “It is one of our largest files….