Nordstrom, the Seattle-based department store chain, recently notified 17 customers that their online accounts had been accessed, and in some cases, misused. The company says that it is not to blame, however, for how the cybercriminals obtained the customers’ login email addresses and passwords. By letter dated September 3, Kim Dawson, Privacy Director for Nordstrom,…
Category: ID Theft
WI, TN: Up to 40,000 credit and debit cards exposed in data breach
Credit and debit cards used at Vacationland Vendors arcade games in Wisconsin Dells may be affected by a data breach. Vacationland Vendors, Inc., a supplier of arcade equipment and vending machines to businesses, announced Monday that up to 40,000 cards used at its Wisconsin Dells and Sevierville, Tenn., arcades may have been exposed, according to…
Florida sees explosion of tax fraud with data breaches fueling the crime
Elaine Silvestrini reports: Thousands of local homeowners who relied on a national alarm business to protect their homes from intruders became victims of identity theft perpetrated by at least one employee of another company that sold them the security system, police say. “I went to them for security and I felt violated,” said Marilyn Varriale,…
TX: Methodist Hospital employee stole cancer patients’ information for payday loan fraud
Brian Rogers reports: An employee for Methodist Hospital in Houston is accused of stealing personal information from cancer and transplant patients for an identity theft scheme that paid for luxury cars and designer clothes. Shantel Moore, 29, is charged with organized criminal activity, a first-degree felony, for participating in a scam with her fiance, Antoine…
Santa Clara dental worker steals patient info, lands in prison
Mike Rosenberg reports: A former employee at a San Jose dental office will spend four years in prison for stealing personal information from patient records to create credit card accounts he used to buy Gucci watches and flat-screen TVs, authorities announced Tuesday. Nick Luu and five other members of an identity theft ring defrauded at least…
(Update and Commentary): Why are states withholding the names of breached entities?
Yet another recent press release – this one from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Connecticut – shields the name of the breached entity: David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that NATASHA SMITH, 25, of Georgia, formerly of Far Rockaway, New York, waived her right to indictment and pleaded guilty yesterday,…