The breach involving ALDI grocery stores is apparently larger than earlier reports suggested as reports trickle in from Pittsburgh and other areas. The chain has updated its statement on its website today: October 1, 2010 ALDI Inc. recently learned that, from approximately June 1, 2010 to August 31, 2010, tampered payment card terminals were illegally…
Category: Skimmers
(Update) Wheeling police probe thefts from Aldi ATMs
The Chicago Tribune reports: As the Aldi grocery chain removes suspect ATM terminals from some of its stores, police in Wheeling said they’re still trying to unravel the source of unauthorized withdrawals that add up to more than $130,000 taken from customers at the Wheeling Aldi store alone. […] More than 200 debit card owners,…
(Follow-up) Credit Card Skimming Suspect Pleads Guilty
Following up on a case reported previously: Gabriel Camara, 36, of Washington, D.C., pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit bank fraud and aggravated identity theft. Camara and a co-conspirator, Nicole Ward, paid servers at several local restaurants to capture customers’ credit card numbers on skimmers, officials said. The stolen information was then given to others…
WI: New information released on ATM fraud investigation
Press release from Eau Claire, Wisconsin police: Eau Claire Police Investigators have new information regarding the credit card scanner that was found at the US Bank ATM on Golf Rd. Investigation has determined that the same individuals may have placed the scanner at the same ATM at about 12:30PM on Friday, 9/17/2010 and picked it…
Za: Five appear in court over card skimming
Two foreign nationals and three South African women appeared briefly in the East London Magistrate’s Court yesterday to make a formal bail application after they were arrested for alleged credit card skimming. Simeon Toshen from Bulgaria and Anthony Uchena from Nigeria appeared alongside co-accused Rachel Harden and Lungiswa Tayati – both from Johannesburg – and…
In: Gangs behind credit card fraud held
Fifteen persons have been arrested for indulging in credit card fraud by obtaining card details of customers from some petrol bunks in the city. […] Speaking to mediapersons here on Friday, Commissioner of Police T. Rajendran said one gang, headed by Manoj Kumar of Pallikaranai, had been operating in Chennai and other parts of the…