Travis County [Texas] deputies have arrested a man who they say is responsible for hundreds of cases of identity theft. Piles of checks, drivers’ licenses, gift cards and receipts blanketed a table at the Travis County Sheriff’s Office Wednesday. “We recovered 70 fake Texas licenses and ID cards, 628 stolen and counterfeit checks,” said Detective…
Category: U.S.
Four Florida women indicted in theft of cancer patients’ information
Jeffrey H. Sloman, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Michael Fithen, Special Agent in Charge, United States Secret Service, announced the unsealing of a nine count indictment charging defendants Sharita Hubbard, 31, Onakia Griffin, 31, Lakenya Knight, 33, all of Pompano Beach, Florida, and Cherralyn Milton-Browner, 37, for their alleged participation…
MyPilotStore.com hack results in false charges on customers’ cards
On February 18, MyPlane, dba MyPilotStore.com, discovered that their database containing their customers’ names, addresses, telephone numbers, e-mail addresses, and credit card information had been hacked. According to the firm, some customers received a “nominal fake charge to their credit card by a company not associated with us.” By letter dated March 19, MyPilotStore notified…
Gateway Community College also reported breach
So while I was looking for information on the Three Rivers Community College report, I stumbled across another incident handled by csIDentity.com. The page is no longer available except in Google’s cache: During a recent security review of the computers at Gateway Community College, it was discovered that certain personal information associated with a number…
Three Rivers reports possible data breach
Jenna Cho reports: Three Rivers Community College may have suffered a security breach due to unauthorized access to its computer network, according to information on its Web site Tuesday. A notice on the college’s site says: Dear Sir or Madam, During a recent review of computers at Three Rivers Community College, a potential breach in…
MidFlorida Credit Union Issuing New Cards
Kyle Kennedy reports that new fraud reports have emerged related to the Heartland Payment Systems breach disclosed in January 2009 and that a credit union is now replacing additional cards: Some MidFlorida Credit Union members are getting new debit cards because of a fraud risk. Kathy Britt, chief operations officer for Lakeland-based MidFlorida, said the…