This seems like a second skimming incident involving a RaceTrac gas station in Florida, as the street address is different than that reported in a previous skimming incident. Paul Mice reports: A few thousand Seacoast National Bank customers have received new credit or debit cards in recent weeks because a handful of them were victims…
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Cord Blood Registry notifies 300,000 of stolen backup tapes (updated)
I first became aware of the following breach from DataLossDB.org. It was reported to them by one of those affected who also reported it on ScamSafe: ScamSafe appears to be the first to report a serious data breach at Cord Blood Registry (www.cordblood.com). No mention has been found of this breach in the news or…
DE: Personal information of 113 Beebe patients stolen (updated)
Officials have confirmed that personal information for 113 Beebe Medical Center patients was stolen from an employee’s vehicle in Florida. According to Beebe Vice President of Corporate Affairs Wally Hudson, the employee took home a financial statement with patients’ names and Medicare numbers, often the same as a social security number, with the intention of…
Arrest made in South Florida ID theft case
Lisa J. Huriash reports that 400 Oakland Park and Delray Beach firefighters and police are watching their accounts after 31 of their own of them learned that their identity information was used in a tax refund fraud scheme. Both towns use the same retirement plan administrator, raising the possibility of a common point of a…
AL: Pair busted with bag of credit cards
David Goodwin reports on the arrest of two low-tech ID thieves in Alabama: Rogers said he worked with Montgomery police to execute a search of Cudjoe’s home, where they found a potato chip bag containing 12 credit cards, none in their name, he said. He also found lists of the names, dates of birth and…
MO: Real Estate Records Found In Dumpster
Betsy Bruce reports: Private real estate records turned up in a condominium dumpster in Hazelwood Thursday. Three banker boxes full of files from the Prudential Patterson Realtors firm were tossed into a trash bin. A resident who retrieved some of the files passed them along to FOX Two News. Personal addresses, phone numbers and a…