The Tyler Chicken Express employee who skimmed customers’ card numbers for others to use in an ID theft ring has been sentenced to two years in prison for her role. KYTX reports: Elizabeth Pickrell, 25, has also been ordered to pay restitution totally more than $95,000 to her victims. […] In Tyler alone, more than…
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Update, Iowa – MasterCard issues local security alert
Bob Eschliman reports more on a recent breach disclosure in Iowa: The MasterCard Fraud Management department has been notified of a security breach of a U.S. merchant’s network. A data security firm has been engaged to conduct an onsite forensic investigation. This alert discloses the payment account numbers of MasterCard accounts that were potentially exposed…
CO: Loveland police trace some credit card fraud reports to Metrolux
Coloradoan.com reports: Loveland police said some of the 1,180 recent credit and debit card fraud reports can be traced to a breach at the Loveland Metrolux 14 Theatres. The investigation into the reports, which surged last month, identified common locations where the cards were legally used before the fraudulent transactions, according to a police news…
NJ: Warren County Community College Alerts Students Whose Social Security Numbers Were on Missing Laptop
On Tuesday, September 27, 2011, the College was notified that a password protected employee laptop that had been taken off campus the previous evening was missing. Believing that the computer could have been stolen, the employee contacted their local police department to investigate a possible theft. In addition, the College notified the NJ State Police…
El Paso County Community College hacked, defaced and data dumped
Over on Cyber War News (a blog I wish I’d known about sooner!), Lee J writes: El Paso County Community College has been targeted due to pure lack of security, @DestructiveSec has been busy away in the servers taking what they wish snooping around and leaving a mess for them to clean up as well as a defaced…
Wells Fargo manager, Best Buy clerk charged with stealing identities of 9 people
Sergio Bichao reports: Two former employees of a Wells Fargo bank in Warren and a Best Buy in Union are facing charges of stealing the identities of nine people to open fake credit cards and ring up more than $29,000 in purchases. Tinaud Garcon, 21, of Union in Union County, and Thomas Alexis, 30, of…