Kathleen Pender reports: A Bay Area woman named Kara got an upsetting call the morning of Oct. 22. The caller said she had found Kara’s 2007 tax return lying in a pile with hundreds of others on the ground in front of an abandoned Jackson Hewitt tax preparation office at 1734 Divisadero St. in San…
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MN: Woman Charged With Stealing $6K From Credit Cards of Apple Valley Store Customers
Betsy Sundquist reports: A Minneapolis woman has been charged with credit-card fraud after authorities say she made more than $6,000 in fraudulent transactions on 98 customers’ credit cards within two weeks while working at an Apple Valley store. The fraudulent transactions reportedly occurred between between May 25 and June 10. Read more on AppleValleyPatch. The…
Breach in online payment system for Lawrence Memorial Hospital exposed up to 10,000 patients’ credit card or checking information
A public notice issued by Lawrence Memorial Hospital in Lawrence, Kansas that appeared on 6News (but not, apparently, on the hospital’s web site yet): On October 28, 2011, Lawrence Memorial Hospital learned that certain information maintained by Mid Continent Credit Services, Inc., d/b/a Blue Sky Credit, the hospital’s vendor for online patient bill-pay services, was inadvertently…
IL: Debit card numbers stolen at Height’s McDonald’s
An employee at the McDonald’s restaurant at 3717 N. Prospect Road was arrested Friday for allegedly using customers’ debit-card numbers to buy goods online. Ericka Hendon, 23, of 7804 N. St. Joseph Court in Peoria Heights was arrested on 21 counts of deceptive practice, 21 counts of identity theft, four counts of felony theft and…
Security Breach at Lawrence Memorial Hospital
A public notice issued by Lawrence Memorial Hospital in Lawrence, Kansas that appeared on 6News (but not, apparently, on the hospital’s web site yet): On October 28, 2011, Lawrence Memorial Hospital learned that certain information maintained by Mid Continent Credit Services, Inc., d/b/a Blue Sky Credit, the hospital’s vendor for online patient bill-pay services, was inadvertently…
Two New York men charged in ID theft fraud, stole hotel guests’ information
Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., announced the indictment of Lukasz Kruk, 27, and Barry Herndon, 47, for collaborating on a long-term scheme in which they stole and possessed information from 237 credit cards, many of which were used to order more than $840,000 in airline tickets, and other goods and services. According to…