ThePartsBin.com (U.S. Auto Parts Network, Inc) notified California of a breach that compromised customers’ credit card information. According to their notification, the breach occurred between April 9, 2012, and June 12, 2012.
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MN: Roseville police probe suspected ID theft at Rosedale restaurant
Emily Gumon reports: Roseville police are investigating what they believe to be an identity theft and credit-card skimming operation at the Chinese Gourmet Express restaurant in the Rosedale Center mall. Several customers of the mall and employees at other stores there reported their personal credit or debit card numbers had been stolen and used fraudulently…
CA: Ex-Gym Employee Accused Of Stealing Clients’ Identities (updated)
A former employee at Wave House, a Mission Beach fitness center, has pleaded not guilty to 20 criminal charges, including identity theft and grand theft. Christopher Polley was arrested after police searched his home. Polley allegedly stole hundreds of applications and contracts. Read more on 10News and their follow-up. Update of Sept. 7: He was…
OK: Ex-worker at Tulsa McDonald’s pleads guilty in identity-theft ring
David Harper reports: A former McDonald’s employee pleaded guilty Friday to taking part in a conspiracy in which account numbers were stolen from diners’ credit and debit cards, telling the court that the crimes started when a drive-through customer asked if he wanted to make some extra money. Herbert Orin Johns Jr., 22, also pleaded…
Groupon Exposes Customer Emails In Google Results…Again
Ingrid Lunden reports: A while back we wrote about a flaw in Groupon’s email link encryption, which revealed the emails of some Groupon users when “addx” was added into a Google search of Groupon’s site. We’ve been alerted that is still happening, with about 170 emails coming up when we searched (last time around it was less than 80)….
AU: Telstra breached customers’ privacy
Jacqueline Le reports: The communications watchdog has slammed Telstra for publishing the personal details of more than 700,000 customers online for most of last year. As many as 734,000 Telstra customers had their names, addresses and, in some cases, driver’s licence details and dates of birth, published online between March and December 2011. The user…