Press release from Eau Claire, Wisconsin police: Eau Claire Police Investigators have new information regarding the credit card scanner that was found at the US Bank ATM on Golf Rd. Investigation has determined that the same individuals may have placed the scanner at the same ATM at about 12:30PM on Friday, 9/17/2010 and picked it…
Category: Financial Sector
Pointer: UK using stolen data to nail tax cheats?
From the end-ju$tifie$-the-mean$ dept. It looks like the UK has joined the ranks of Spain and France in using data stolen from HSBC to go after tax cheats. See the coverage on UKWired and BBC.
MI: Accounting firm client records dumped in trash
Piles of people’s personal information from a local accounting firm has been tossed into a garbage can for anyone to find. The documents were discovered in the trash outside the Comprehensive Accounting firm on 8 Mile and Farmington roads in Farmington Hills. [….] Local 4 found thousands of client files in the trash that included…
In: Man held for duping people at ATMs
Sindhi Camp police have arrested the supervisor of a security company — which provides guards to the banks on charges of duping many people by tampering ATMs. The accused duped several people who used ATMs. He used to either ask for help or “assist” ATM users and would manage to get their PIN in the…
Bulgarian brothers charged with installing skimmers at Chase and Citibank
Bruce Golding reports: Two brothers have been charged with scamming more than $1 million by installing electronic skimmers and hidden cameras on Chase and Citibank ATMs. Radostin and Ulian Paralingov, from Bulgaria, used information gleaned from the devices to create duplicate bank cards and crack PIN codes, according to the Manhattan US Attorney’s Office. Another…
Playing catch-up in Australia
Outdated banking technology has made Australia a prime target for international ATM skimming gangs, according to police. Tens of millions of dollars are lost in Australia each year as a result of card skimming. The problem is that Australia is still using magnetic strips, rather than the ‘chip and PIN’ technology in other countries, and…