Through their lawyers at Foley & Lardner, SanDiegoFit.com, an online women’s apparel site, reported that on August 30, there was a burglary at their locked, alarm-protected building that resulted in the theft of a computer containing customer data. In its notification to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office dated September 10, the company reported that…
Category: U.S.
Cardinal Health notifies employees and applicants of missing laptop
When a good samaritan contacted Ohio-based Cardinal Health in mid-June to tell them that a used laptop purchased on eBay contained company information, Cardinal Health recovered the laptop and began to investigate. Under their policies, data on decommissioned computers are to be securely deleted by their IT department and then securely destroyed by a vendor….
Update: Roseville credit-card fraud traced to one restaurant
Bill Lindelof reports: Hundreds of local cases in which thieves have collected credit-card numbers and used them to fraudulently make purchases have been traced to customers who frequented one Roseville restaurant, police said today. Roseville police said that hundreds of credit-card numbers were compromised at Paul Martin’s American Bistro. Read more on the Sacramento Bee….
CA: Hackers Target Roseville Eateries For Credit Card Information
The hospitality sector continues to be targeted by cybercriminals. KCRA reports: Roseville police are warning people eating out in Roseville to avoid using their debit cards and to pay with cash or use credit cards. The warning is in response to a recent rash of credit card thefts connected to a multitude of Roseville eateries….
TX: Personal info stolen from 7,250 associated with Rice U.
KTRK reports: Houston police are investigating the theft of personal information of more than 7,000 people associated with Rice University. The university says a device containing information involving about 7,250 Rice faculty and staff, along with some students and retirees, was recently stolen. One of the files contained a list of Rice employees and students…
NY: Romanian National Indicted For ID Theft Scheme
The Westchester County District Attorney’s office announced that a nine count indictment was handed up charging Razvan Apostol, 31, a citizen of Romania staying in Queens, New York, with eight counts of Criminal Possession of a Forged Instrument, and one count of Unlawful Possession of a Skimmer Device. On August 17, 2010, in the Town…