KYTX provides an update to their coverage of a Chicken Express breach affecting hundreds of people in Tyler, Texas and other areas. The breach involved an employee skimming cards at a Tyler franchise. Here is the statement by the owners: In the summer of 2010, the Tyler police made us aware of a situation involving…
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FL: Former IT Technician Sentenced to Jail for Computer Intrusion
U.S. Attorney Robert E. O’Neill announced that U.S. District Judge Susan C. Bucklew sentenced Patricia Marie Fowler (age 30, of Palmetto), the former information technology (IT) technician for the Suncoast Community Health Centers (SCHC) located in Ruskin, Florida, to 18 months in federal prison for committing computer intrusions causing damage of at least $17,000. The…
TX: Employee swiped credit card numbers at Chicken Express
KYTX reports: Cops take down a major identity theft operation with ties to Tyler. It’s one of several cases affecting East Texans right now. An employee at a Tyler Chicken Express is accused of bringing a special card-reader to work. Police say she took customers’ debit cards at the drive-thru window, swiped them once at the cash…
The fish rots from the head: Illinois drivers license exec accused of providing customer personal info to ID thieves for gift cards, sports tickets
Amy Alderman reports: A 58-year-old executive of the Illinois Secretary of State’s drivers license division surrendered today to allegations that he gave personal information he found in the Libertyville customer database to identity thieves in exchange for gift cards and sports tickets. According to David Druker, spokesman for Secretary of State Jesse White’s office, Charles…
MD woman pleads guilty in tax fraud scheme that misused children’s identity information
Twanna Dorothea Campbell, aka “Twanna D. Gaines,” “ Twanna Campbell-Moore,” and “Mrs. T,” age 32, of Baltimore, pleaded guilty this week to conspiracy to file false tax returns and aggravated identity theft. According to her plea agreement, Campbell and another individual owned a tax preparation business that operated under various names, including Phoenix Tax World,…
FL: Hampton Inn reports hacker modified customer surveys
Dennis Culver reports on a hack that probably won’t get prosecuted: The Lee County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a Thursday reported theft of intellectual property at the Hampton Inn at 11281 Summerlin Square Dr. The complainant, Esther Gayfield, told investigators an unknown suspect had hacked into the hotel’s computer system network and modified customer surveys…