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Debit Card Fraud Tied to OfficeMax Breach (fwd)
From: lyger <lyger () attrition org>
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 07:38:22 -0500 (EST)
Courtesy ISN: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1935677,00.asp By Paul F. Roberts March 8, 2006 Debit card fraud that has affected customers at a number of credit unions in central Massachusetts is linked to transactions at office supply retailer OfficeMax, according to investigators. Dozens of credit union members in the towns of Leominster and Fitchburg, Mass., have been defrauded of more than $45,000 in the last few weeks by criminals in the United States and abroad, according to law enforcement officials in those towns. The fraudulent transactions involve cloned Visa debit cards and may be linked to the theft of blocks of PINs from OfficeMax or an intermediary processor, sources familiar with the case said. [...] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/errata/dataloss/
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