Claire Kellett reports: Cedar Falls police are investigating an unusually high amount of credit card fraud just in the past few days. The department says isolated cases are common, but it is receiving enough reports to consider asking the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation for help. Police say this is affecting both debit cards and…
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(update) Credit card fraud reports still growing
The Stillwater case keeps growing….. and in this installment, it seems that it’s less clear how the breach occurred than previously thought. Peter Cox reports: Police have taken nearly 200 reports from people affected by credit card numbers apparently stolen from the Mad Capper Bar and Restaurant in downtown Stillwater. Investigator Kyle Sykes, who is…
Hundreds Exposed to I-D Theft in Sparks Store Closing
Ed Pearce reports: The Hollywood Video store in the Baring Village Shopping Center like others in the chain is now closed, its shelves empty, but if you were a customer there and filled out a membership form that paperwork and all its information was left free for the taking out back when the store closed….
Speedy Tax Refunds, but to Identity Thieves, Suit Says
Andy Newman reports that police suspect an H & R Block employee of misusing customer data to obtain fraudulent refunds. Former customers who have been affected filed a lawsuit against H & R Block this week. Read more in the New York Times.
HBDirect.com customers notified of hack
HBDirect.com suspects that its web site was breached and that customers’ names, addresses, phone numbers, e-mail addresses and credit card numbers were stolen. In a letter to those affected which is not the typical letter I’m used to reading, company principal Paul Ballyk not only explained what an SQL injection attack is, but noted that…
Bar patrons hit with credit card fraud
Peter Cox reports on a breach previously mentioned here. Some credit cards swiped recently at the Mad Capper have been swiped by hackers who’ve racked up charges on those cards from Indiana to Russia. Jeff Chilson, owner of the Mad Capper, said that people who have been at the downtown Stillwater bar/restaurant in the last…