If you shopped online at WirelessEmporium.com between December 24, 2013 and January, your name, address, payment card number, expiration date, and CVV code made have been acquired by a hacker who inserted malicious software. If you’re among those affected (and they don’t reveal how many were notified), you’ll have to manage on your own as…
Category: U.S.
Delaware restaurants reportedly affected by credit card security breach
More problems related to LogMeIn? If you’re dining out in Delaware, it may be safer to use cash. Dover Post reports: A number of restaurants in Delaware may have been affected by a security breach that compromised promised software used by customers to pay their bills. The alert was issued July 23 by the Delaware…
Former eastern Jackson County car dealer sentenced in $1.1 million fraudulent loan case
Brian Burnes reports the sentencing of the owner of Edge Auto Sales, who misused his customers’ information. A former Kansas City-area used car dealer behind one of the largest identify theft cases ever prosecuted in a Missouri court was sentenced Thursday to 15 years in prison. Terry Lee Morrow Jr. used his customers’ names, birth…
Sandwich Chain Jimmy John’s Investigating Breach Claims
Brian Krebs reports: Sources at a growing number of financial institutions in the United States say they are tracking a pattern of fraud that indicates nationwide sandwich chain Jimmy John’s may be the latest retailer dealing with a breach involving customer credit card data. The company says it is working with authorities on an investigation….
Data breach at University of West Florida
The University of West Florida announced Thursday morning that passwords and usernames for about 160 people may have been compromised in an data breach of the university’s main campus networks, a news release from UWF said. University officials believe that some individuals attacked the network to intercept UWF ArgoNet usernames and passwords for approximately 90…
Two More Defendants Plead Guilty In Identity Theft Fraud Scheme Involving Personal Identifying Information From AT&T Customer Files
Jacqueline Nicole Lee Warrick, 26, of Miami, and Tracy Delva, 27, of Deerfield Beach, pled guilty today for their participation in a conspiracy to unjustly enrich themselves by stealing personal identifying information and using the information to make unauthorized wire transfers from the victims’ bank accounts and obtain unauthorized credit or debit cards. Co-defendant Chouman Emily Syrilien,…