Ed Crooks provides more background on a breach involving Shell employee contact information: The database, from Shell’s internal directory, gives names and telephone numbers for its workforce worldwide, including some home numbers used for business. The e-mail was ostensibly sent by disaffected staff calling for a “peaceful corporate revolution” at the company. The database was…
CO: Woman pleads not guilty to charges of stealing customers’ credit card information
A woman accused of stealing customers’ credit card information to purchase $200,000 worth of Wal-Mart shopping cards pleaded not guilty. Investigators say Jerryca Chavez obtained customers’ credit card information while working at the Sandwich Board cafe in Greenwood Village. Read more on KDVR.
Former New York Federal Reserve Bank employee and his brother sentenced to prison for fraudulent loan schemes
Curtis L. Wiltshire, a former employee of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (“FRBNY”) and his brother, Kenneth Wiltshire, were sentenced today to 40 months and 57 months in prison, respectively, for their roles in schemes to obtain hundreds of thousands of dollars in fraudulent loans. The sentences were imposed today by United States…
Police arrest 3 Turks over debit card scam
Police have arrested three Turkish nationals who allegedly used fake debit cards to buy luxury goods in Bangkok. Ziya Ismet Gebologco, 54, Ozulmez Bekir, 37, and Falay Togan Ahmet, 34, were arrested yesterday with seven debit cards, a laptop computer and a digital camera at Seacon Square shopping mall on Srinakarin Road by Crime Suppression…
FL: Federal credit card fraud investigation nets two Jacksonville arrests after $88,000 charged
Dan Scanlan reports: What investigators are calling a “sophisticated” scheme that opened dozens of fake lines of credit and racked up more than $88,000 on at least eight victims’ credit cards ended Tuesday with the arrest of two Jacksonville residents. The U.S. Secret Service said there could be more victims and suspects, and “a lot…
Equifax tax forms expose worker Social Security numbers
Elinor Mills reports: An unknown number of current and former employees of credit reporting firm Equifax received W-2 forms in the mail with their Social Security numbers visible through a window on the envelope, CNET has learned. Equifax became aware of the problem on January 19 and informed employees in a letter dated January 27,…