Skimming customers’ credit cards may be easy, but memorizing the numbers? That’s somewhat impressive. A major probe has been launched after a TK Maxx shop worker allegedly stole credit card details and passed them to a gang. The Irish Mirror has learned the shop assistant has been interviewed by gardai about the alleged theft of…
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NYC: Two Pret A Manger workers in Chelsea stole 100 customers’ information using credit card skimmers: officials
Shayna Jacobs reports: Two ex-employees at Pret A Manger allegedly took a big bite out of customer’s wallets. Nigel McCollum, 22, and his gal pal Lenica Greene, 23, were hit with a massive indictment for stealing the identities of at least 100 customers through credit card skimmers, Manhattan prosecutors said Wednesday. Read more on NY…
ACC staffer faces inquiry after clients’ records stolen
As if ACC hadn’t gotten enough bad press over previous breaches, it’s had another one. Anna Turner reports: The personal details of dozens of Christchurch ACC claimants have been leaked after a staff member’s home was burgled. ACC confirmed yesterday that the home of a Christchurch ACC case manager was broken into on Saturday, August…
Income and Capital Growth Strategies notifies clients after hack
Income and Capital Growth Strategies Inc. is notifying clients of a hack that occurred between July 12 and July 15 of this year. The breach was discovered on July 15. In their notification letter dated August 8, Doug Thorburn, the principal of the firm, writes: We have recently discovered unauthorized access to our computer network…
Former Georgia Tax Preparers Sentenced for Tax Refund Fraud
The Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced that former professional tax return preparers Greene Wylie Sheppard, Sabrina Johnson-Lavant and Chandra Henderson were sentenced this month to serve 56 months, 18 months, and 8 months in prison, respectively, for conspiring to defraud the United States by filing false tax returns in order to…
WA: Months after they learned of Vendini breach, Edmonds Center for the Arts first notifying customers
Notification delayed: In an email sent to more than 13,000 customers Monday, the Edmonds Center for the Arts warned that hackers earlier this spring had broken into the computer databases of Vendini, Inc, the ECA’s online ticket sales agent — raising the possibility that individual credit card information might have been compromised. ECA Executive Director…