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Multi-state debit card fraud linked to Hancock Fabrics – police

Posted on November 23, 2009 by Dissent

Linda McGlasson reports: Bank customers in California, Wisconsin and Missouri are reporting fraudulent ATM withdrawals that police say are tied to transactions conducted with the Hancock Fabrics retail chain. In California, Napa Police Department spokesman Brian McGovern says 60 residents reported their cards being used by thieves….. At about the same time, as many as…

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TAD Gear hacked, customer data misused

Posted on November 20, 2009 by Dissent

TAD Gear has posted a notice on its web site at tadgear.com: This notice is to inform our customers of a security incident at TAD Gear. We recently learned that our database was illegally accessed from an external source, and it appears that some customer data were taken, which may include customer names, contact information…

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T-Mobile UK customer data sold

Posted on November 17, 2009 by Dissent

As an update to a report filed earlier today, Marc Chacksfield of TechRadar reports that it is T-Mobile at the heart of the data-selling scandal. The company released a statement: “T-Mobile takes the protection of customer information seriously. When it became apparent that contract renewal information was being passed on to third parties without our…

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UK mobile phone data ‘was sold’ (Update 1)

Posted on November 17, 2009 by Dissent

Staff at one of the UK’s major mobile phone companies sold on millions of records from thousands of customers, the information watchdog says. Christopher Graham told the BBC that brokers had bought the data and sold it on to other phone firms, who called the customers as contracts neared expiry. The suspected trade emerged after…

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Starbucks Data Breach Plaintiffs Try Their Luck in the Ninth Circuit

Posted on November 16, 2009 by Dissent

From The  Short Names blog: A lost laptop computer containing the personal information of Starbucks employees prompted a class action lawsuit against Starbucks (in Washington).  The lawsuit received some coverage (see, for example Bob McMillan here, and Starbucks Gossip here), but the trial court’s dismissal of the lawsuit received almost no coverage.  (I mentioned the…

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Press Copy to have your Identity Stolen

Posted on November 13, 2009 by Dissent

Melissa Yeager of WINK News follows up on their investigation where they purchased used hard drives on eBay only to discover that they contained personal information such as bank accounts, credit cards, social security numbers, even pharmacy prescriptions. The news team tracked some of the data back to Sears and Giant Foods of Maryland, who…

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