The Destination Hotels & Resorts breach reported back in June as affecting 700 people nationally reportedly affected 470 residents of New Hampshire – even though none of the affected properties are in New Hampshire. According to the breach disclosure filed by the chain’s law firm, Proskauer Rose, with the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office, the…
Category: ID Theft
TX: Credit, debit card information stolen from restaurant customers
Andrew Horansky reports: Thieves stole credit and debit card information worth thousands of dollars from customers at a popular South Austin restaurant. It happened at Tino’s Greek Café on Brodie Lane. Some people are just finding out now that their information was stolen. […] Tino’s has multiple locations in Austin, and the problem appears to…
OR: Inmate pleads no contest to ID theft
Teach a man to call and he swindles for a day. Give a man a phone and he swindles for a lifetime. A Multnomah County jail inmate accused of pretending to be a grandson who needed cash to bail out of jail has pleaded no contest to multiple counts of identity theft. Prosecutors said 44-year-old…
FL: Romanian man accused of stealing credit card numbers
A 31-year-old Romanian man is accused of stealing credit card data from at least 18 people and racking up $11,696 in charges at a Land O’Lakes Target store. Mircea C. Ciornei, of 3804 Olde Lanark Drive in Land O’Lakes, was arrested Tuesday. The investigation was done by the Florida Department of Financial Services. Several calls…
Massive credit card fraud ring suspected in Abbotsford
Kelly Sinoski reports: Abbotsford Police suspect a fraud ring is operating in the Fraser Valley city, after collecting 20,000 credit cards and card-making equipment in three separate incidents in the past three weeks. One arrest has already made and police are investigating to determine whether the incidents are linked. “From our small town, indications are…
Alleged International Credit Card Trafficker Arrested in France on U.S. Charges Related to Sale of Stolen Card Data
An international credit card trafficker thought to be one of the most prolific sellers of stolen data was arrested in Nice, France, on Aug. 7, 2010, on charges in an indictment unsealed today in U.S. District Court in the District of Columbia. Vladislav Anatolievich Horohorin, 27, aka “BadB” of Moscow, Russia, was indicted by a…