Annysa Johnson reports: Federal authorities continue to investigate a “cyber theft” of $121,000 from a prominent Catholic church in Brookfield that has all the markings of a sophisticated Internet crime operation. St. John Vianney learned from its commercial banker last month that blocks of money had been withdrawn from one of its accounts through a…
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MI: Accounting firm client records dumped in trash
Piles of people’s personal information from a local accounting firm has been tossed into a garbage can for anyone to find. The documents were discovered in the trash outside the Comprehensive Accounting firm on 8 Mile and Farmington roads in Farmington Hills. [….] Local 4 found thousands of client files in the trash that included…
Bulgarian brothers charged with installing skimmers at Chase and Citibank
Bruce Golding reports: Two brothers have been charged with scamming more than $1 million by installing electronic skimmers and hidden cameras on Chase and Citibank ATMs. Radostin and Ulian Paralingov, from Bulgaria, used information gleaned from the devices to create duplicate bank cards and crack PIN codes, according to the Manhattan US Attorney’s Office. Another…
(update) St. Charles said 30 reports of debit card fraud came from Aldi
The breach previously mentioned on this blog involving some ALDI stores has reportedly affected “hundreds” of individuals. Hal Conick of the St. Charles Republican reports that 30 residents of St. Charles were among those affected.
Three plead guilty to using Franklin County Court website as part of ID theft conspiracy
In a case that became a cautionary tale for court websites and the need to redact personally identifiable information that could be used for ID theft, three Columbus residents have pleaded guilty to conspiring to steal credit accounts belonging to people whose identities they stole from a government website in 2006. Katura Mozelle, 23, pleaded…
(Update) NE: Police Track Credit Card Thefts
More on the rash of credit card and debit card fraud being reported in the Lincoln, Nebraska area that was reported earlier this week. KETV reports: Lincoln police said someone who hacked into a national database may be responsible for helping identity thieves go on shopping sprees with credit card numbers. Investigators said more than…