Chris Doucette reports: Five men arrested earlier this fall for a major fraud scheme involving TTC Metropasses have been slapped with 69 new charges for allegedly stealing data from tens of thousands of credit cards. Toronto Police said the investigation, dubbed Project Rocket, has continued since the accused were arrested Sept. 27 on 33 charges….
Category: Skimmers
Barnes & Noble discloses breach involving pin pads at dozens of stores (update2)
Remember when Michael’s Stores found that pin pads in some stores had been replaced? It looks like the same thing has happened to bookseller Barnes & Noble’s brick and mortar stores. According to the New York Times, the firm discovered the breach on September 14. As of now, it appears that pads at 63 stores…
FL: Auto part store investigating credit card fraud
WSVN reports: An auto parts company is investigating potential incidents of credit card skimming at two of its South Florida stores. Advance Auto Parts on Northwest 14th Street and 27th Avenue and the store on Northeast 119th Street and Biscayne Boulevard, are believed to have been affected, potentially compromising the credit card information of nearly…
Coral Springs Police: Identity Theft Ring Busted
CBS in Miami reports that police have busted an ID theft ring that involved an employee of a Coral Springs Chili’s and others. On Tuesday Ames and other investigators showed the evidence recovered to CBS 4 News — a credit card making machine, a credit card skimmer, laptops, blank credit cards and pages and pages…
CA: ID theft suspects busted in credit card-skimming case
From News10: It continues to happen. Three individuals were arrested Thursday on suspicion of identity theft and burglary after a month-long investigation in which detectives with the Sacramento County sheriff’s hi tech crimes unit uncovered credit/debit card skimming devices, thousands of credit card numbers, hundreds of bogus California identification cards and numerous counterfeit credit cards….
Two sentenced for role in Michaels Stores data theft and misuse
Two southern California men were sentenced in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in Oakland for their roles in a scheme to defraud nearly 1,000 debit card holders by using stolen bank account information to withdraw money from ATMs. Eduard Arakelyan, 21, and Arman Vardanyan, 23, were each sentenced yesterday to…