Joe Coohey reports: Eight people, including a former bank teller, were charged Thursday with participating in an identity theft ring that used account information stolen from customers of Cherry Hill-based TD Bank, said acting Attorney General John J. Hoffman. The group is accused of stealing more than $150,000 from bank branch offices in South Jersey….
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Insider breach at NYC Bed Bath & Beyond: cashier stole customers’ credit card information
If you shopped at the Bed Bath & Beyond store on E. 61st in New York City between August 5 and September 19, you may want to check your credit card statements. On September 19, the retailer discovered that some customers’ credit card information was compromised by a cashier at that store. The notification sent…
HSBC offering customers credit monitoring services after rogue employee stole and misused their information
HSBC is offering some customers five years’ worth of free credit monitoring service after learning that a rogue employee had been improperly accessing customer information since early this year. The offer of extended services was for those who information had been accessed multiple times. Others were offered 1 year of free services. You can read…
Former UNL student pleads guilty in security breach
Lori Pilger reports a follow-up to a breach previously noted on this blog: The 23-year-old former student indicted in connection to a computer security breach at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln last year pleaded guilty Tuesday. Daniel Stratman, who lives in Omaha now and works for an IT company, had faced a dozen counts in an…
CA: Active-duty Army reservists victims of identity theft; 2 men arrested
Adolfo Flores reports: Two men were arrested in connection with the identity theft of U.S. Army Reserve officers who were on active duty in Afghanistan, authorities said. Mauro Cortez, 25, and Rigoberto Cortez, 29, were arrested Wednesday after the Los Angeles County Identity Theft Task Force served a search warrant at a home in Pomona, according to the…
Update: Arrest in Sachem schools data breach (update1)
There has been another development in a data breach involving the Sachem Central School District on Long Island (previous coverage here and here). As I commented previously, it sounded to me like they suspected an insider breach but it wasn’t clear if it was an employee or a student hacker they suspected. Well, now we…