Tim McGlone reports: When Sophia Jacobs worked the drive-thru at the Norfolk Naval Station McDonald’s, she swiped hundreds of customers’ credit or debit cards twice – once through the register and again through a skimmer. She and her friends then went on a shopping spree with those card numbers to the tune of about $50,000,…
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NC: VA worker sentenced for stealing vets’ identities
A Department of Veterans Affairs worker has been sentenced to 11 years in federal prison for stealing personal information from disabled North Carolina veterans to generate bogus tax returns. Michael Ray Woods, 48, of Fayetteville, was convicted in February of 12 counts of preparing false tax returns, 10 counts of wire fraud, 10 counts of…
UK: Hampshire school breached data protection rules
From the Information Commissioner’s Office: Bay House School in Hampshire breached the Data Protection Act after the personal details of nearly 20,000 individuals, including some 7,600 pupils, were put at risk during a hacking attack on its website. The hack – which happened in March and involved one of the school’s pupils – exposed pupils’…
FL: Pasco County diners become credit card fraud victims
Jamie Klein reports: Eight local victims of credit card fraud had one thing in common: They had eaten at the Mugs n’ Jugs restaurant on U.S. 19 in Port Richey before noticing fake charges on their cards. Authorities say former Mugs n’ Jugs waitress Kathryn Shana’e Perez used a “skimmer,” a scanning device that captures…
Officials: S.J. ringmaster used inside help to steal more than $200K from TD Bank customer accounts
Jim Walsh reports: For more than two years, Kashon Adade sent many customers to TD Bank offices in South Jersey, authorities say. But all that business wasn’t welcome. Investigators claim Adade ran a bank-fraud ring that relied on insider help and identity theft to drain about $200,000 from the accounts of unsuspecting TD Bank customers….
Citi Cards Japan data theft hits 92,408 in Japan
Thieves stole private data for more than 90 000 customers of Citigroup’s Japanese credit-cards subsidiary and resold it to others, the company said on Friday. “Citi Cards Japan, Inc. (CCJ) has come to know that certain personal information of 92, 408 customers has allegedly been obtained and sold to a third party illegally,” the company…