Freeman Klopott reports: Wait staff at several Washington-area high-end restaurants stole credit card numbers from customers and ran up a $750,000 tab at stores like Gucci and Barney’s of New York, federal authorities said in court documents. […] The customers victimized at the District’s M&S Grill, 701 Restaurant, Clyde’s of Gallery Place and Bowie’s Carrabba’s…
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NY: Box delivered to Sun office leads to investigation
Grant Parpan of the North Shore Sun reports: A cardboard box filled with records from a Holbrook social worker’s office — including Social Security and bank account numbers, addresses and phone numbers of clients — was delivered to The North Shore Sun last week by a town worker who said he found it lying on…
Bits ‘n Pieces
In the justice system: A skimmer that was attached to the Bank of America ATM in Bethlehem, PA, compromised 286 accounts. More. An estimated $1 million was skimmed this week from the accounts of people who used some ATMs in Melbourne. The ANZ Bank has canceled about 2000 cards. Five Romanian men have been charged…
California mortgage broker charged in multimillion-dollar identity theft ring
Don Thompson of the Associated Press reports that Jerry Van Le has been accused of using stolen Social Security numbers from about 25 people to make purchases and then selling the personal information to over 2,000 other individuals in a multimillion-dollar identity theft ring. Le reportedly used his role as a mortgage broker to obtain…
Symantec Data Leak Remains Under Investigation (updated)
Brian Prince of eWeek reports: Law enforcement is still investigating how credit card information belonging to a handful of Symantec customers from the United Kingdom fell into the hands of an identity theft ring. Though speculation has focused on an employee of e4e, a call center in India, a spokesman for Symantec said its own…
Bits ‘n Pieces
In the justice system: Regina Tolliver, formerly employed by the Citizens Bank branch in King of Prussia, was convicted on all counts alleging that she stole the information of seven customers. She had been indicted (pdf) in January 2008. More. Richard J. Berger faces five years in prison for accessing sensitive customer information for SunLife…