Cigdem Iltan reports: The owner of a southeast Edmonton travel agency has been charged with allegedly using stored credit card data to fraudulently take $50,000 from his customers. Gurmeet Singh Mankoo, Payless Travel’s owner, has been charged with a series of alleged frauds that took place at the business between late 2009 and early 2010….
Category: Business Sector
Restauranteurs threaten to sue POSitouch and NJ reseller
Yesterday’s press releases brought news of another potential lawsuit involving the restaurant industry and a POS vendor and reseller. I recognize the attorneys’ names as the same attorneys who filed suit on behalf of some Louisiana restauranteurs against another POS vendor, Radiant Systems, and their reseller, Computer World, last year. According to the press release,…
44 million stolen gaming credentials found in online warehouse
Ellen Messmer reports: Symantec says it has unearthed a server hosting the credentials of 44 million stolen gaming accounts — and one of the most surprising aspects of it is that the accounts were being validated by a Trojan distributed to compromised computers. The purpose of this Trojan-based validation is apparently to figure which credentials…
City of Charlotte joins list of Towers Watson data loss victims
The City of Charlotte becomes the third entity to reveal that their data were on two DVDs lost by Towers Watson. In April, DataBreaches.net reported that Lorillard Tobacco was notifying employees that their names, addresses, dates of birth, and Social Security numbers were on two missing DVDs. General Agencies Welfare Benefits Program also reported that…
LifeLock Worries About Employee’s Personal Data, Asks New Times to Alter Published Police Report
Ray Stern reports: Lame! LifeLock, the so-called identity-theft “protection” company based in Tempe we wrote about last week, called us in a tizzy yesterday — worried about the accidental publication of one its employees’ personal data. This is the type of situation LifeLock would never put in a press release, but we’re more than happy…
Lincoln: technology issues exposed customer data since 2002
It was a series of technology issues, dating back to 2002, that Lincoln National Life Insurance and Lincoln Life & Annuity say resulted in the potential exposure of personal information of customers to other clients and their agents. In a letter dated May 17 to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office, attorneys for Lincoln explain…