Daedalus Books has notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that in December, it had discovered that there had been unauthorized access to a database with customer information including names, addresses, and credit card numbers. The breach affected only those customers who placed orders on the company’s web site between August 25, 2009 and November…
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Galeton web site with customer credit card data hacked
Gloves, Inc. d/b/a Galeton, notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office on February 8 that its web site had been the victim of what appeared to be a “brute force attack.” The hackers reportedly were potentially able to access customer information including name, address, credit card number and expiration date. Although the total number of…
IN: 9 claim tax return ID theft
WBBM reports: The IRS and police in northwest Indiana are looking into allegations of identity theft of people who claimed someone had filed tax returns for them before they filed their own returns. There are nine people who have filed identity theft complaints with the East Chicago, Ind. police department. The Northwest Indiana Times reports…
Shell staff details leaked to campaign groups
Ed Crooks provides more background on a breach involving Shell employee contact information: The database, from Shell’s internal directory, gives names and telephone numbers for its workforce worldwide, including some home numbers used for business. The e-mail was ostensibly sent by disaffected staff calling for a “peaceful corporate revolution” at the company. The database was…
CO: Woman pleads not guilty to charges of stealing customers’ credit card information
A woman accused of stealing customers’ credit card information to purchase $200,000 worth of Wal-Mart shopping cards pleaded not guilty. Investigators say Jerryca Chavez obtained customers’ credit card information while working at the Sandwich Board cafe in Greenwood Village. Read more on KDVR.
Lawrence Welk Resort Furious with Visa
Elizabeth Banicki reports: The Lawrence Welk Resort says a tech company disabled its computer security system, making 1,427 customers’ credit cards vulnerable to ID theft. Welk says it paid Micros Systems $100,000 for the botched job, to “ensure compliance with evolving Visa and other industry security standards,” and that Visa, for “no legitimate reason,” ordered…