A former employee of the Internal Revenue Service is among three defendants who have been indicted for stealing taxpayers’ identity information in order to receive fraudulent tax refunds. Taylor S. Knight, 32, and Michael J. Moore, 27, both of Kansas City, Mo., and Michael Stalcup, 42, of Farley, Mo., were charged in a six-count indictment…
Category: ID Theft
MN: El Agave Mexican Restaurant hacked; over 200 customers report card fraud
Associated Press reports that there have been over 200 reports of card fraud by customers who used payment cards at a Fairmont, Minnesota restaurant, El Agave Mexican Restaurant. Officials believe a point-of-sale hack took place at the restaurant. Yesterday, El Agave posted this on their Facebook page: HELLO!! we wanna thank everyone for the support we’re…
How big was the Sally Beauty breach?
Although Sally Beauty acknowledges that 25,000 payment cards may have been compromised in a recently disclosed breach, Brian Krebs challenges their statement by analyzing the zip codes of card data up for sale on an underground market, rescator.so. You can read his analysis here, but the short version is that Brian speculates that all Sally Beauty…
More TD Bank insider breaches
On March 1, I blogged about numerous insider breaches TD Bank has reported in the past few years. I updated that report on March 9 with even more breaches that I uncovered via public records that were subsequently made available. Today, I received a response to a public records request to the North Carolina Attorney…
Data breach involving card payment data at California Department of Motor Vehicles – Krebs (update 3)
Brian Krebs reports that what’s already been a bad month for California residents in terms of data breaches just got worse: The California Department of Motor Vehicles appears to have suffered a wide-ranging credit card data breach involving online payments for DMV-related services, according to banks in California and elsewhere that received alerts this week about compromised cards…
Current and former Weather Shield employees continue to battle identity theft
Just a quick update to the Weather Shield case – where employees have been victims of tax refund fraud for the past three years, although Weather Shield says there is no evidence that they had a breach: so far this year, there have been 24 cases of tax refund fraud. And for the life of me,…