MAPCO Express issued a press release today concerning a security breach as well as this notice on their web site: At MAPCO, we care about our customers and respect their privacy. We want to alert you that we have experienced a security breach by third-party hackers that may have compromised the credit/debit card information of…
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Fort McClellan Credit Union notifies customers after many cases of debit card fraud
Notice from the Fort McClellan Credit Union in Alabama alerts customers, but the breach was not the credit union’s breach. The breach involves an unnamed or as yet unidentified common point of compromise: ALERT – ALERT – ALERT LETTER TO CREDIT UNION MEMBERS – Debit Card Fraud During March, 2013, several debit card accounts issued…
Hackers got personal info from state computers
I’m having one of those “WTH???” moments. Read this report from Associated Press: Some state employees and vendors who do business with Alabama are being notified that their personal information was accessed when hackers infiltrated a state computer system. The state Department of Homeland Security announced today that it was making the notifications, but wouldn’t…
Walmart: no, there’s been no breach of walmart.com
I was surprised to read a news report tonight that Walmart.com had been hacked. Part of my surprise was due to the fact that mainstream media did not have the story but a site called SandhillsExpress.com in Nebraska was reporting it: Ericka and Mike Hunt of Broken Bow were reviewing their bank account online this…
Your medical records are in a dumpster in another state. Now what?
Melissa Payne reports that a man in the Shoals (Alabama) found thousands of medical files from a doctor’s office in Virginia in dumpsters around town. How they wound up in Florence, Alabama is anyone’s guess at this point. “It’s concerning because there are phone numbers, birth dates, addresses, social security numbers in these files,” said…
Former state employee sentenced to federal prison for ID theft
Some follow-up on a previously reported case of some folks in Alabama who stole and used identity info as part of a tax refund fraud scheme. The conspirator sentenced today worked for the Alabama Department of Corrections.