Jonathan D. Epstein reports: A debit-card security breach at a discount grocery chain that operates in 11 states is costing Five Star Bank as much as $850,000 in fraud losses. Financial Institutions, the Warsaw-based parent of the bank, expects to suffer a pretax loss of about $750,000 to $850,000 in the fourth quarter in connection…
Category: ID Theft
Multiple businesses compromised in Capitol Hill?
Another small development in the rash of credit card fraud cases and attempts to transfer business funds in the Capitol Hill area of Seattle. So far, only the Broadway Grill has been named as a point of compromise. As reported previously, not only are their customers affected but their own bank accounts were accessed to…
Four plead guilty to stealing cash from victims’ bank accounts, identity theft
The last of four Minnesotans pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in St. Paul to operating an identity theft ring involving the creation of fraudulent identification cards and checks that were eventually cashed at businesses and banks in three states. Appearing before United States District Court Judge Donovan W. Frank, Christopher Englin, age 28, of…
NZ: Hawke’s Bay man used keyloggers to capture public wi-fi users’ bank logins
Just a man and his keylogger. A computer-hacking fraudster has been given a community-based sentence for stealing $8538 from bank accounts via the internet. Judge Tony Adeane, in Napier District Court last Friday, sentenced Hawke’s Bay man Matthew Fraser, 25, to 200 hours of community work and ordered him to repay the money. Fraser had…
(update) Capitol Hill credit card fraud victim total nears 100, investigators suspect sniffers
jseattle provides the latest update on a string of fraud reports As we were first to report that a Secret Service electronic crimes task force has made a major break in its investigation of a wave of credit card fraud emanating from Capitol Hill, reports of fraudulent charges continue to pile up. More than 40…
(Update) Capitol Hill credit card fraud wave ‘adjudicated’ — Secret Service task force claims break in case
jseattle reports: A special task force that combines Secret Service investigators with local law enforcement experts has made a major break in the case of a large wave of fraudulent activity involving credit card accounts belonging to people who live and work on Capitol Hill, CHS has learned. According to David A. Iacovetti, Special Agent…