International Checkout, Inc. recently notified customers after a security breach involving a database containing credit card numbers. The breach was discovered in mid-September, although the firm does not indicate how it first became aware of the problem. Subsequent investigation, completed on October 31, determined that the breach had occurred on August 23. Those affected were…
Category: Business Sector
CA: Help-desk employee who helped himself to co-worker’s information, sentenced to prison
United States Attorney Laura E. Duffy announced that Khris St. Ives Dulay Lu was sentenced in federal court in San Diego by United States District Court Judge Roger T. Benitez to serve 48 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, based upon his conviction for credit card fraud, in violation of…
Prosecutors: Hacker stole Seattleites’ credit card info for drug money
Levi Pullkinen reports: A Seattle grand jury has indicted a Maryland man accused of hacking into the credit card systems of several Seattle businesses and using stolen funds to fuel his heroin addiction. Currently in inpatient treatment for drug addition, 20-year-old Christopher A. Schroebel is facing federal hacking charges related to a string of high-tech…
(update) Michaels Stores Still PINned beneath Payment Card Skimming Lawsuit
Ah, I missed a ruling. Thankfully, Brendon Tavelli didn’t. He writes: In May 2011, Michaels Stores reported that “skimmers” using modified PIN pad devices in eighty Michaels stores across twenty states had gained unauthorized access to customers’ debit and credit card information. Not a pretty picture for Michaels. Lawsuits soon splattered on the specialty arts…
How do you define “finite and very small:” Peoples Gas/North Shore Gas disclose breach
Steve Daniels reports: Peoples Gas and sister utility North Shore Gas have notified an undisclosed number of customers of the possible theft and potential use of personal information about them by a contract worker. The natural gas utilities, which serve nearly 1 million customers in the city of Chicago and many northern suburbs, said in…
Update to Restaurant Depot/Jetro breach
The recent Restaurant Depot/Jetro breach that I reported on Dec. 7 provides a timely example of the issue of unreimbursed harm that consumers grapple with on a daily basis. As I continue to follow media coverage on that breach, it is clear that not only is there financial impact of this breach (the hacked card numbers…