Jeannie O’Sullivan reports: A federal grand jury has indicted a former TD Bank employee for her alleged role in a scheme involving fraudulent withdrawals totaling nearly $70,000 from branches in Burlington and Camden counties between October and February. Jennell Digby, 27, of Philadelphia, was charged with conspiracy, bank fraud and aggravated identity theft, according to…
Category: ID Theft
AU: Credit card details hacked at Horsham business
Police at Horsham, in the state’s west, say the computer system of a Horsham business has been hacked and people’s credit card details stolen. For legal reasons, police are not identifying which business had its computer remotely accessed. There have now been 60 complaints of unauthorised use of cards from the Wimmera Mallee, but police…
Man sentenced in Sacramento for massive ID theft scheme
A Long Beach man accused of conducting a massive identity theft scheme was sentenced today in federal court in Sacramento to more than 12 years in prison. U.S. District Judge Morrison C. England Jr. sentenced That Tien Truong Nguyen, 34, to 12 years and seven months in prison for conspiring to commit computer fraud and…
TN: College, government officials among fraud victims in Gallatin area
There’s a rash of card fraud in Gallatin, Tennessee, and authorities have not yet identified the point of compromise. On July 20, Sarah Kingsbury reported: A recent outbreak of credit card fraud has victimized at least two dozen consumers around Gallatin and Hendersonville, including government and college officials. Volunteer State Community College Dean of Humanities…
BET24 data breach: what did they know, when did they know it, and why the hell didn’t they disclose?
John Leyden reports: BET24.com warned customers on Monday that their personal data may have been exposed by a breach that took place in December 2009. The gambling site is only warning clients 19 months after the breach, although it said it had taken other measures, including resetting passwords, at the time of the breach. The…
Margarita’s Mexican Restaurant breach raises issues of law enforcement’s role in notifying the public (updated)
Brandon Scott reports that authorities have now named the source of a rash of card fraud reports in Huntsville, Texas. But what may be most significant about the news report is its focus on how law enforcement decided whether to – or when – reveal the point of compromise: … Huntsville Police Department, Walker County…