Dan Goodin reports on yet another skimming operation involving a gas station, this one in Utah: It was discovered in late January at a 7-Eleven in Sandy, Utah. Police said it may have been actively monitoring transactions for as long as 60 days. It resulted in losses of more than $11,000. Read more in The…
Category: Business Sector
Equifax offers employees free Equifax credit monitoring after SSN exposed in mailing gaffe
After Equifax recently sent out IRS W-2 statements to most of its current employees and some former employees, they discovered that some employees’ control ID numbers were partially or completely viewable in the return address window of the envelope used by the payroll vendor. In an unspecified number of cases for U.S. employees, the control…
(update) 30 reports of ID theft at East Chicago tax service
Leah Hope reports that the number of ID theft victims who all used an H&R Block service is growing: Dozens of East Chicago, Ind., residents who went to H&R Block had their identities stolen, police said. The IRS and East Chicago police are investigating claims that someone got a hold of taxpayers personal information. Thirty…
AL: Debit scam hits Hanceville business
Benjamin Bullard reports: Hanceville police are cautioning residents to be on guard against a sophisticated debit card wire scam that has leached hundreds of thousands of dollars from customers whose card numbers have been stolen remotely from pay terminals at one or more local businesses. The primary target in the theft so far has been…
Ie: Budget Travel customer data stolen
Elaine Edwards reports: Gardaí are investigating the theft of a memory stick containing personal details of tens of thousands of customers of Budget Travel, which went into liquidation last November. The liquidator, Simon Coyle, contacted affected customers yesterday to inform them their details were on a USB stick taken as part of a theft from…
3000 Small Dog Electronics customers’ credit card details compromised
Electronics retailer Small Dog Electronics has suffered from a systems breach that left 3000 customers’ credit card details compromised. The data theft, which left the credit card details exposed from late December to almost the end of January, used a security hole in the in-house web application that had been developed to manage Smalldog’s ecommerce…