David Harper reports: A former McDonald’s employee pleaded guilty Friday to taking part in a conspiracy in which account numbers were stolen from diners’ credit and debit cards, telling the court that the crimes started when a drive-through customer asked if he wanted to make some extra money. Herbert Orin Johns Jr., 22, also pleaded…
Category: ID Theft
FTC Files Complaint Against Wyndham Hotels For Failure to Protect Consumers’ Personal Information
Woo hoo. I had such a headache trying to sort out Wyndham’s breaches (see previous blog entries on Wyndham) and was concerned that at least one state had removed their notification from public view on the state’s web site because Wyndham had asked that it be treated as confidential. Now it seems the FTC has…
MN: State worker stole IDs for fraud
David Chanen and Dan Browning report: Applications that psychologists made to the Minnesota Board of Psychology to get or renew their licenses delivered a gold mine of information to a receptionist working with a crime ring to defraud banks and retailers in 14 states. Robin Finger, 44, is the latest of several people in a…
Penn Station breach mushrooms to 80 locations; Heartland Payment and Secret Service investigating
Ruh oh. Tracy Kitten reports: Restaurant chain Penn Station Inc. has upped the number of franchise locations affected by a payments breach to 80, almost double what it originally reported. The breach, which Penn Station says it’s still investigating, is connected to a point-of-sale processing hack that may have exposed credit and debit details, but…
Penn Station, Inc. and its Franchisees Alert Customers of Credit/Debit Card Security Issues
Ruh oh. Penn Station, Inc. and some of its franchisees have announced that they have learned of unauthorized access to credit and debit card information in certain franchisee-owned Penn Station East Coast Subs restaurants. Less than 20 percent of Penn Station’s more than 235 restaurants have been identified as potentially affected to date. “We want…
A Six-Figure Credit Breach at Five Guys (updated)
I hate it when we only find out about data breaches from lawsuits, but at least we find out. Marlene Kennedy of Courthouse News reports: Five Guys burger joints failed to safeguard their data, giving hackers access to the accounts of debit-card-paying customers, a bank claims in court. Trustco Bank says the hackers racked up…