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(update) Credit card fraud reports still growing

Posted on April 10, 2010 by Dissent

The Stillwater case keeps growing….. and in this installment, it seems that it’s less clear how the breach occurred than previously thought. Peter Cox reports: Police have taken nearly 200 reports from people affected by credit card numbers apparently stolen from the Mad Capper Bar and Restaurant in downtown Stillwater. Investigator Kyle Sykes, who is…

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Hundreds Exposed to I-D Theft in Sparks Store Closing

Posted on April 10, 2010 by Dissent

Ed Pearce reports: The Hollywood Video store in the Baring Village Shopping Center like others in the chain is now closed, its shelves empty, but if you were a customer there and filled out a membership form that paperwork and all its information was left free for the taking out back when the store closed….

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Atlanta investigates security breach

Posted on April 9, 2010 by Dissent

Eric Stirgus reports: Atlanta officials said Friday they are investigating how personal information of about 1,000 current and former city Fire Rescue employees found its way to the Internet. The information was used on a personal laptop and then accessed by another computer, city officials said in a news release. It included the names, addresses,…

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Brokerage Account Hacker Gets 3 Years in Jail

Posted on April 9, 2010 by Dissent

A computer hacker was sentenced to 3 years and 1 month in prison yesterday for hacking into brokerage accounts at Charles Schwab and laundering more than $246,000, some of which he sent to co-conspirators in Russia. From September 2006 to December 2007, Aleksey Volynskiy used Trojan horse computer viruses to steal victims’ personal account information…

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Suspects Collect Millions In Tax Return Fraud

Posted on April 9, 2010 by Dissent

Luther Clay, Josephine Cowles and Glen Apling are three U.S. citizens who all died in 1983. Somehow they and over 1,000 other deceased individuals managed to file tax returns in 2006. “It’s a very, very sophisticated scheme,” Arizona’s district U.S. Attorney, Dennis Burk, said at a press conference Thursday morning. Burk’s office began investigating this…

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Speedy Tax Refunds, but to Identity Thieves, Suit Says

Posted on April 9, 2010 by Dissent

Andy Newman reports that police suspect an H & R Block employee of misusing customer data to obtain fraudulent refunds. Former customers who have been affected filed a lawsuit against H & R Block this week. Read more in the New York Times.

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