In the justice system: Lloyd Barkley pleaded no contest to charges he collaborated with Atin Singh and his wife in a plot to steal customer data from an unnamed Indian restaurant where Singh worked; the fake credit cards were then used at a local Safeway. More. Jorge Ignacio Lozano Apodaca and Angel Ernesto Zapien Del…
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CA: Octuplets hospital workers fired
Fifteen hospital workers have been fired for improperly accessing the medical records of octuplets mother Nadya Suleman, officials have said. Eight other staff at the [Kaiser Permanente Bellflower] hospital near Los Angeles were disciplined for looking at the records without permission, the hospital said. Read more on BBC See also L.A. Times
On the menu: stealing your details
Freeman Klopott reports: Wait staff at several Washington-area high-end restaurants stole credit card numbers from customers and ran up a $750,000 tab at stores like Gucci and Barney’s of New York, federal authorities said in court documents. […] The customers victimized at the District’s M&S Grill, 701 Restaurant, Clyde’s of Gallery Place and Bowie’s Carrabba’s…
Bits ‘n Pieces
In the justice system: A skimmer that was attached to the Bank of America ATM in Bethlehem, PA, compromised 286 accounts. More. An estimated $1 million was skimmed this week from the accounts of people who used some ATMs in Melbourne. The ANZ Bank has canceled about 2000 cards. Five Romanian men have been charged…
California mortgage broker charged in multimillion-dollar identity theft ring
Don Thompson of the Associated Press reports that Jerry Van Le has been accused of using stolen Social Security numbers from about 25 people to make purchases and then selling the personal information to over 2,000 other individuals in a multimillion-dollar identity theft ring. Le reportedly used his role as a mortgage broker to obtain…
Symantec Data Leak Remains Under Investigation (updated)
Brian Prince of eWeek reports: Law enforcement is still investigating how credit card information belonging to a handful of Symantec customers from the United Kingdom fell into the hands of an identity theft ring. Though speculation has focused on an employee of e4e, a call center in India, a spokesman for Symantec said its own…