The National police’s special crimes unit has arrested a credit card fraud suspect, identified as DDB, 26, an employee with the US-based Starbucks coffee shop in Jakarta. The unit chief Sr. Comr. Winston Tommy Watuliu said the suspect, a university graduate, collected data of the credit cards from the coffee shop customers’ receipts, as quoted…
Category: Business Sector
Turks hack Israeli account details
Nitzan Sadan reports: Turkish hackers have obtained the passwords and credit card details of 32,561 Israeli users, the Israeli We-CMS blog says. According to the blog, a Turkish message board has uploaded a list containing credit card details, PayPal and bank usernames and passwords. The list is also said to contain more than 140 passwords…
(update) Aldaco’s credit card hacking period shrinks
Guillermo Contreras reports: Patrons of a popular North Side restaurant whose credit and debit card processing system was hacked earlier this year might be able to breathe a little easier. Aldaco’s in Stone Oak has narrowed down the dates when customers’ card numbers may have been compromised to a period between March 21 and May…
CA: Tax Preparer Accused of Ripping Off Identities of Customers
A tax preparer accused of using the names and Social Security numbers of current and former clients to file false tax returns to obtain refunds was arraigned Thursday on multiple federal charges. A 34-count indictment alleges Neil A. Thomsen, 62, used his Internal Revenue Service electronic filing number to set up accounts with two banks…
Under the media radar: recently reported breaches
In a recent press release, the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) pointed out that in some cases, we only find out about breaches because a state lists the reports it receives online. Some recent submissions to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office are a case in point. Although most of the breaches reported below would…
Two more Dutch data breaches
Karin Spaink summarizes and translates two more breaches: City leaks bank numbers Private data of people who have received a building license in Groningen, is visible via the city’s website. (One needs to apply for such a license when expanding one’s house or building an addendum to it.) Data disclosed are names, addresses, bank numbers,…