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Fraud on the Target Visa call center

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2008-02-08 15:32:45 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Fraud Prevention team discovered that three employees of a company that provides call center assistance for Target National Bank used the privileges granted as part of their job to commit fraud. The suspected employees used Target Visa card account information to place fraudulent charges on Target Visa accounts Reference URL The New...
 
Tags: call, target, call center employees, accounts, target visa accounts, call center, call center assistance, employees, target national bank
 
 
 
 
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Employee fraud at Tenet Healthcare affects 37,000

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2008-02-18 10:26:45 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...fraudulent information, police said The company mailed letters last week announcing the security breach to anyone who could have been affected, said spokesman Steven Campanini Tenet also informed victims how to set up free fraud alerts at the nation's three major credit bureaus There's an annoyance factor and we apologize for that," Campanini...
 
Tags: tenet, require, require social security, security, tenet healthcare corp, employee fraud, fraud, letters, tenet notification letters
 
 
 
 
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Central Bank of the UAE reports ATM fraud to lenders

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2008-03-03 11:41:37 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...fraudsters who hacked into a bank's ATM machine We have been informed by one of the banks operating in the UAE that a gang of computer professionals has managed to insert an electronic reader into the card reader of one of its ATMs, which enabled them to copy the data of all the cards used in the said ATM during the period 19-25 February...
 
Tags: bank card details, card details, bank, bank card, atm, regular card reader, reader, customers, bank customers
 
 
 
 
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Fraud Due to a Credit Card Breach

2008-03-21 06:39:34 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...fraud: The company is aware of about 1,800 cases of fraud reported so far relating to the breach And this is interesting: "Visa and MasterCard have stipulated in their contracts with retailers that they will not divulge who the source is when a data breach occurs," Spitzer said. "We've been engaged in a dialogue for a couple years now about...
 
Tags: breach, data breach occurs, fraud, risk, million unique account, actual risk, card authorization process, retailer, rule
 
 
 
 
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Hundreds of WiseBuys customers are victims of credit card fraud

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2008-04-26 21:01:56 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...fraudulent cards were used to pay for taxi rides, to buy food at a Wendy's Restaurant and to make purchases at New York City drug stores and other locations We had the New York City police call us about one of our cards that was picked up in a sting," said Scott A. Wilson, president and chief executive officer of SeaComm Federal Credit...
 
Tags: credit card, credit, wisebuys, credit union, credit union absorbs, credit issuer time, canton wisebuys store, report credit, credit card companies
 
 
 
 
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McAfee anti-fraud researcher charged with fraud

2008-05-19 00:00:00 by Robert McMillan in Network World on Security
 
One of the researchers behind ScanAlert, the "Hacker Safe" certification company McAfee recently acquired, is facing fraud charges in Indiana
 
Tags: hacker safe, fraud charges, researchers, indiana, scanalert
 
 
 
 
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McAfee anti-fraud researcher charged with fraud

2008-05-20 10:28:30 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
A former excutive at ScanAlert, the firm that offered the "Hacker Safe" certification before it was purchased by McAfee, has been charged with securities fraud in Indiana
 
Tags: securities fraud, hacker safe, mcafee, firm, excutive, indiana, certification, scanalert
 
 
 
 
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Symantec offers online fraud protection

2008-05-28 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b0a494 in Network World on Security
 
Symantec announced the availability of Symantec Online Fraud Protection, a comprehensive program that includes Symantec services, education and ongoing monitoring and management capabilities designed to protect businesses that conduct large volumes of financial transactions and their customers from losses due to online fraud
 
Tags: symantec, online fraud, includes symantec services, financial transactions, protect businesses, losses due, management capabilities, comprehensive program, conduct
 
 
 
 
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Bust-out schemes are a fraud to make you go bust

2008-06-09 00:00:00 by HASH0x8472ff4 in Network World on Security
 
Increasing globalization is proving to be a boon for perpetrators of a type of fraud known as a "bust-out scheme." This kind of fraud, commonplace in the computer and electronics industry, victimizes legitimate manufacturers and retailers. People in the industry should be aware of the particulars of such schemes so they can guard against them
 
Tags: fraud, industry, electronics industry, schemes, bust-out scheme, retailers, manufacturers, perpetrators, commonplace
 
 
 
 
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Apama: Fraud Detection and Heat Maps

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2008-01-02 23:57:21 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
...fraud sooner than later, minimizing fraudulent market transactions andtheir influence on the market