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NY: Restaurant employee sentenced for skimming customers’ card numbers

Posted on December 11, 2013 by Dissent

Following up on an insider breach at the Golden Town Buffet reported previously on this blog:  the defendant who pleaded guilty last month, Heng Li, has been sentenced  to 2 1/3 to 7 years in prison for skimming credit card numbers. Read more on CBS Albany.

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Credit card fraud in Lake Saint Louis traced to skimmer; suspects apprehended

Posted on December 7, 2013 by Dissent

On November 13, media reported that about 300 people in Lake Saint Louis, Missouri had become victims of credit card fraud. The next day, media reported that the source of the stolen data may have been an ATM skimmer. And on November 22, media reported that two suspects had been apprehended in Omaha on November…

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Keyloggers found on 10 Nordstrom registers in Florida (update1)

Posted on November 16, 2013 by Dissent

Ten registers in Nordstrom stores in Aventura Florida reportedly were tampered with and had keyloggers attached.Video footage from security revealed that the criminals worked in groups to distract and install the keyloggers between August 14 and October 5, when Nordstrom discovered the problem. Nordstrom believes that some customer data may have been compromised, but all…

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NY: Buffet employee pleads guilty to identity theft

Posted on November 13, 2013 by Dissent

While the big cybercriminal gangs make headlines, it’s often the little local schemes that will cause you misery. WNYT reports: An employee of the Golden Town Buffet in Bethlehem has pleaded guilty to stealing the credit card information of some of his customers. Heng Li, 27, entered the plea in Albany County Court on Wednesday…

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Update: Four arrested for LIRR ticket vending machine skimmers

Posted on November 2, 2013 by Dissent

Lyndsay McCabe reports that four Romanians have been arrested in the case of skimmers and cameras attached to Long Island Railroad ticket vending machines: The ticket vending machine scammers had been using pinhole cameras placed strategically at TVMs to read information entered by commuters, as well as plastic credit card skimmers placed over the bank…

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Police find hidden video cameras on LIRR ticket machines

Posted on October 19, 2013 by Dissent

Alfonso A. Castillo reports: Police are investigating an apparent credit and debit card scam involving tiny video cameras hidden on Long Island Rail Road ticket vending machines. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority Police Department first learned of the scam after a customer found one of the small video cameras on the floor — having apparently fallen…

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