A Long Island shoe store employee is accused of stealing security information from customers’ credit cards and making duplicate cards. Police say the cashier at a Bellmore Payless store used a “skimming” device to scan the magnetic strip of security information from the credit cards of 11 customers. Police say he used the cards to…
Category: Breach Incidents
(follow-up) Latvians to be deported for role in Davidson Companies extortion plot
Some breaches continue to tie up resources for years. The Davidson Companies breach, first revealed in January 2008, seems to be one of them. Even though the lawsuit against the firm was settled in November, in April, FINRA fined them, and some attempted extortionists were indicted. Now there’s yet another update to the story. Travis…
Potential breach of credit, debit card info at 2 Dixie Cafes
Lindsey Clark reports: Dixie Restaurants was contacted in regards to a potential breach of credit and debit card information at two Dixie Cafe locations in Little Rock and Hot Springs, Arkansas. Dixie Restaurants is currently working with law enforcement officials to determine the origin and extent of the data that has been compromised at these…
IL: Springfield publishes private info on FOIA website
Bruce Rushton reports: Admitting that it “goofed,” the city of Springfield put documents online that contained sensitive information such as Social Security numbers, driver’s license numbers, home and work telephone numbers and even a bank account number and the name of someone who called the state anonymously to report suspected child abuse. The documents were…
(follow-up) Woman sentenced for stealing Durham city workers’ identities
As a follow-up to a case previously covered on this site, WRAL now reports: A Durham woman was sentenced Thursday to prison after pleading guilty to using the personal information of city employees to obtain credit cards and purchase items online and by phone. Alexis Faison, 27, of 1028 Slateworth Drive, pleaded guilty to 39…
Everett man who stole IDs of 70 people is sentenced
A follow-up to a case previously reported in Bits ‘n Pieces Cathy McLain reports: An Everett man was sentenced to 40 months in prison Wednesday on federal bank-fraud and identity-theft charges that involved fraudulent use of the identities of about 70 people. Craig A. Galey, 35, had pleaded guilty to the charges in U.S. District…