Tristan Kirk reports: Two fraudsters who ran a lucrative credit card factory from a flat in Haringey have been jailed today. Gabriel Yew and Cheng Chee Weng set up the operation in Hornsey Road, producing bogus bank cards using at least 700 stolen account numbers. When police raided the flat earlier this year, they discovered…
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Cyber security challenge organisers in email privacy blunder
John Leyden reports: Organisers of the UK’s cyber security challenge committed an embarrassing email blunder by inadvertently revealing the email addresses of everyone who entered a forensics challenge to each other. A single challenge registration confirmation was CCed to everyone who entered, handing over a complete email list in the process. Read more in The Register.
Point-of-sale machines a growing magnet for identity thieves
Laura Baziak reports that theft of POS touch screens is increasing in Canada as thieves look for an easy way to get any card data stored on the device: …. Farahbakhchian said theft of all point-of-sale machines has been a steady problem in B.C. for the past three years. He said he hasn’t seen a…
‘Sensitive information’ on Tamil migrants stolen (update 2)
The Canadian Press is reporting what appears to be a burglary that specifically targeted a computer containing Tamil migrants’ personal information at the Toronto office of the Canadian Tamil Congress: The congress says it contained the names and information of hundreds of migrants. A spokesman for the congress, David Poopalapillai, says it was a “deliberately…
UK: Fraudster must pay £30,000
Polly Rippon reports: A conman from Sheffield who masterminded conspiracies to defraud high street bank customers out of hundreds of thousands of pounds has been ordered to pay back nearly £30,000 to the authorities. Lawrence Siaw, aged 36, recruited bank workers to steal customers’ account details, then used them to plunder huge sums from their…
UK: East Lothian Council exposes cabbies’ personal info on web site
Kirsty Gibbins reports: East Lothian Council has apologised over a “serious” staff error which saw the personal details and previous convictions of taxi licence applicants published on the local authority’s website for two hours. The names, addresses, telephone numbers, driving history and criminal records of 12 applicants for either taxi driver or operator licences –…