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UK: Fine for car rental manager who sold customer details to claims company
A former rogue manager at a Merseyside branch of the car rental company Enterprise Rent-A-Car has been prosecuted by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) after unlawfully stealing the records of almost two thousand customers before selling them to a claims management company. Appearing at Wirral Magistrates Court today, 29 year-old Stephen Siddell was prosecuted under…
JP: Benesse customer info sold immediately after data theft: police
Mainichi reports: The culprit behind the theft of customer data from correspondence education giant Benesse always intended to sell the information, and did so almost immediately, the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) believes. A source close to the case has told the Mainichi Shimbun that a systems engineer from a subcontractor managing a Benesse Holdings Inc….
TX: Apartment complex residents private files found in dumpster
Damall Keith reports: It was thrown away like trash, folders full of personal information. What do you think? Is your social security number, salary and employment information trash? One company now has some explaining to do after private files were found in a dumpster. ”Copies of drivers license, copies of social security cards, banking information,”…
Houstonian Hotel suffers security breach, credit card information may have been exposed
Olivia Pusinelli reports: The Houstonian Hotel, Club & Spa told guests this week it suffered a six-month “malicious software attack” that could have exposed credit card information, according to reports. The Houston Chronicle and KTRK ABC 13 report that the attack lasted from Dec. 28 to June 20 and that the U.S. Secret Service notified the hotel of…
AU: Police swoop on alleged taxi credit card fraud syndicate in Sydney
Rose Powell reports: A fraud racket with the potential to steal the credit card details of hundreds of Sydney taxi users has been dismantled following police raids. Several members of the group were arrested last week in a card-cloning den set up in a motel room in Chullora. Some 800 blank credit cards, as well as…