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The first arrests in connection with the recently disclosed breach at Heartland Payment Systems Inc. have been made.
The Leon County, Florida Sheriff’s office earlier this week announced the arrests of three area residents — Tony Acreus, Jeremy Frazier and Timothy Johns — for allegedly using stolen credit card numbers associated with the breach.
The arrests followed a three-month investigation of [...]
The BBC published an interesting article on some research from Symantec.
Symantec calculated the figure to quantify the scale of fraud it found during a year-long look at the internet’s underground economy.
Credit card numbers were the most popular item on sale and made up 31% of all the goods on offer.
Coming in second were bank details [...]
The Daily Mail reports that a UK Government investigation was launched after the personally identifiable information (PII) of more than a million bank customers was found on a computer sold on eBay.
Highly sensitive information on American Express, NatWest and Royal Bank of Scotland customers was found on the disk array sold for £35.88 (about $72).
The [...]
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