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Category: Breach Incidents

Two charged in superseding indictment for their roles in a $30 million bank fraud and ID theft ring

Posted on October 11, 2009 by Dissent

A Miami Beach, Fla., man and his driver were charged Thursday in a Superseding Indictment for their roles in a telemarketing fraud and identity theft scheme that attempted to defraud financial institutions and their account holders throughout the United States of millions of dollars through the unauthorized and fraudulent debit of customer bank accounts. Acting…

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Police look into shredder bin theft

Posted on October 11, 2009 by Dissent

Linda Golz reports: Authorities are investigating the thefts this week of large bins used to store paper waiting to be shredded from three FirstMerit Bank branches in Streetsboro, Westlake and Elyria. […] FirstMerit spokesman Rob Townsend said just one of the stolen containers actually had customer and bank information in it. Townsend said he is…

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Losses from EFTPOS frauds at Perth shops hit $450,000

Posted on October 10, 2009 by Dissent

McDonald’s Australia is alerting customers to a huge skimming operation in Perth. As of yesterday, they had reported that about 2500 accounts had been compromised to the tune of $450,000 but today they say that they cannot guarantee that more West Australians will not be fleeced in the fraud scam. While police have so far…

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Private info found in county Dumpster

Posted on October 10, 2009 by Dissent

Kari Cobham reports: Every 10 years, Flagler County’s building department purges its files. Only this time, county employees dumped about 15 boxes of applications, deeds, notices and plans in the trash — some of which included residents’ driver’s license and Social Security numbers. “We did wrong; it is a mistake we made,” County Administrator Craig…

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Cyberthieves find workplace networks are easy pickings

Posted on October 10, 2009 by Dissent

Byron Acohido provides a write-up of some of the TJX and Heartland Payment Systems incidents that emphasizes the point that many hacks go undetected or unnoticed — and that cyberthieves often take considerable time to start and continue stealing data: Companies, understandably, rarely discuss data breaches. However, proof that data thieves are targeting hundreds of…

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MD bank dumps identities into trash

Posted on October 8, 2009 by Dissent

It’s a local bank you trust with your money and your personal information. But the M&T branch in Rodgers Forge didn’t shelter all of some peoples’ secrets. As ABC2 News Investigator Joce Sterman discovered, some of the documents that contain them didn’t get shredded, they got dumped. […] What the bank did was dump the…

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