jseattle provides the latest update on a string of fraud reports As we were first to report that a Secret Service electronic crimes task force has made a major break in its investigation of a wave of credit card fraud emanating from Capitol Hill, reports of fraudulent charges continue to pile up. More than 40…
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NJ: Private Seton Hall University student data exposed in e-mail
Personal information of 1,500 seniors – contained in an e-mail attachment – was accidentally sent to 400 students on Tuesday. The e-mail attachment, which was an Excel spreadsheet, listed the students’ names, home addresses, e-mail addresses, student identification numbers, majors, credit hours and grade point averages, according to a “Security Incident” e-mail sent Tuesday evening…
IN: Personal Info Found Dumped Outside School
The state is investigating after a box full of personal information was found dumped in a trash bin near a downtown school. …. A recent search turned up a box of payroll stubs from the Thai Cafe in Broad Ripple. […] The stubs, from the year 2000, had been in the possession of Richard Fischer,…
(Update) Capitol Hill credit card fraud wave ‘adjudicated’ — Secret Service task force claims break in case
jseattle reports: A special task force that combines Secret Service investigators with local law enforcement experts has made a major break in the case of a large wave of fraudulent activity involving credit card accounts belonging to people who live and work on Capitol Hill, CHS has learned. According to David A. Iacovetti, Special Agent…
Everywhere I look, there’s more I didn’t know about
I was reading some local coverage about recent card fraud in Macon, Georgia when I realized that one of the previous breach incidents they were describing didn’t seem familiar: The recent cases in downtown Macon come on the heels of about 50 employees at Robins Air Force Base having their accounts hacked in August after…
(Update) Civic Center credit card breach may be a computer hack
More on a breach first reported here yesterday: Investigators believe the scammers used either a skimming device or a computer hack to steal credit and debit card information from victims that had used their cards at the Onondaga County Civic Center. Police have now heard from more than 60 victims. So far, Syracuse Police say…