In the justice system: Vicky L. Munn, a former supervisor with the St. Tammany District Attorney’s Office and Todd Kelly, a local private investigator, were each sentenced to three years’ probation for conspiracy to exceed authorized access to a governmental computer. According to court records, Munn sold over 48 criminal records to Kelly between 2003…
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Bits ‘n Pieces
In the justice system: Four Romanian men were arrested in Florida after being accused of skimming a Chase Bank ATM in Cicero, NY. They have been linked to similar schemes around the country. More. In Utah, Frank Miranda and his wife Valerie Pena were sentenced for conspiracy to commit access device fraud. Some of the…
“Operation Plastic Pipe Line” nabs 45 in massive international ring
Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown announced today that an international forged credit card and identity theft ring based in the New York metropolitan area has been successfully dismantled following the indictment this week of forty-five individuals. The ring – which was comprised of three separate identity theft and forged credit card groups that employed…
RBS Gets an OK on PCI, But Is It Back in Visa’s Good Graces?
Digital Transactions reports: RBS WorldPay Inc., the other big merchant acquirer besides Heartland Payment Systems Inc. to report a major data breach in recent months, this week announced that it has attained validated compliance with the Payment Card Industry data-security standard, or PCI.
Woman Finds Credit Card Statements Unprotected Online
From TheIndyChannel.com: A major credit card company is investigating how more than a hundreds statements were made available online after an Indiana woman alerted them to the problem. Constance Wilson had logged in to pay her Aspire Visa card bill when she instantly had access to 120 other statements from people in Indiana and 31…
Report: ATM/Debit Card Fraud On The Rise
This will be no surprise to anyone who really reads all the breaches reported on this site, but Kelly Jackson Higgins of Dark Reading reports: […] Nearly 70 percent of the [161 financial services] respondents to the survey, conducted by antifraud firm Actimize, said they had experienced an increase in ATM/debit card fraud claims in…