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IL: Ex-Elgin cop official pleads guilty to ID theft, gets probation

Posted on July 16, 2015 by Dissent

There’s an update on a case first noted on this blog in 2013. The Chicago Tribune reports: Former Elgin deputy police chief Robert Beeter pleaded guilty Thursday to a charge of hacking into the email account of a fellow officer whose wife was romantically involved with Beeter. In a plea bargain with Kane County prosecutors,…

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Santander reports ATM incidents at Massachusetts branches (updated)

Posted on July 16, 2015 by Dissent

Santander Bank seems to be having problems with ATM incidents at some of their Massachusetts branches. In each of three reported cases, the criminals attached a magnetic stripe reader on the ATM vestibule door of the branch and removed it within a day or two. Customers’ names, card numbers, expiration dates, security codes, and PIN numbers were obtained…

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Alfa Specialty Insurance and Alfa Vision Insurance notify customers of personal information leak

Posted on July 16, 2015 by Dissent

Alfa Specialty Insurance Corp. and Alfa Vision Insurance Corp. are notifying some customers that personal information related to auto insurance policies was inadvertently exposed on the Internet. The exposure was discovered on May 4th. The source of the exposure was one of their servers in their Brentwood, Tennessee location. Exposed information included customers’ names, addresses, dates…

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Indiana radio station hacked by Anonymous

Posted on July 16, 2015 by Dissent

WIVB reports: An Indiana radio station was apparently hacked Sunday evening. If you were tuning in to WXXR 97.3 in Terre Haute, you might have heard a message from “Anonymous.” “Anonymous” is an activist group that hacks websites, to express their views and messages. Around 7:30 p.m. Sunday, the FM signal was intercepted and a…

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Accused Hacker Kingpin in Plea Talks With U.S. Over ATM Scam

Posted on July 15, 2015 by Dissent

Christie Smythe reports: A Turkish man accused by the U.S. of masterminding a scheme that siphoned tens of millions of dollars from automated teller machines around the globe is negotiating a plea deal, prosecutors said. Ercan Findikoglu, known as the “Predator,” has been held in a federal jail in New York since he was extradited…

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PA: ‘Numerous’ Cases Of Identity Theft And Fraud Hits Phoenixville

Posted on July 15, 2015 by Dissent

Justin Heinze reports: There have been “numerous” cases of identity theft and credit card fraud in Phoenixville recently, and most of the victims have been patrons of Nudy’s Cafe, according to the Phoenixville Police Department. If you have visited any of the Nudy’s Cafe locations since March and paid with a credit card, police are…

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