Alexia Tsotsis reports: Earlier today patrons of Wine Library received an email informing them that the credit card information they had used to sign up to the WineLibrary.com site may have been compromised in a data breach. The site is the hub of NYT Best Selling Author Gary Vaynerchuk’s family business, made famous by his…
Category: Business Sector
AT&T Customers Targeted by Hack Attack, Company Says
A handful of AT&T customers were targeted Monday by an organized hacking attack that was ultimately unsuccessful, a company spokesman tells FoxNews.com. “We recently detected what could have been an organized attempt to obtain information on a number of customer accounts,” AT&T spokesman Mark Siegel told FoxNews.com. “The people in question appear to have used…
AU: ADP exposes client emails
Michael Lee reports: Payroll services company ADP Australia has inadvertently made a marketing email list accessible on the internet, exposing its customers to spam and phishing messages. The list, which ADP said was dated 2007, was being used at the time to send out ADP client newsletters. The company said the list only contained email…
McDonald’s hat trick of the week: three cases involving insider breaches make the media
It looks like McDonald’s made a media hat trick this week in terms of dishonest employees and card fraud or ID theft. First, employees in Illinois and Washington were caught skimming customers’ debit and credit cards, and now Dave Gibson reports on a case from Georgia: On Wednesday, Eva Ramos, 36, a former McDonald’s restaurant…
Owner of tax preparation business pleads guilty to using stolen identity information for fraudulent tax refunds
Marsha Elmore of Wetumpka, Ala., the owner of a tax preparation business called Community Tax, pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges related to her use of stolen identities to fraudulently obtain tax refunds, the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced. Elmore pleaded guilty to one count each of filing a false claim, wire…
NY: Steakhouse Waiters Busted in Alleged Identity Theft Ring (updated)
Jonathan Dienst, Shimon Prokupecz and Joe Valiquette report: More than two dozen current and former waiters and their associates from some of the city’s top steakhouses have been arrested in an alleged identity theft ring, accused of stealing credit card numbers from wealthy customers, NBC New York has learned. Several suspects are from top city…