OR: OSU Bookstore investigating possible ID theft

[lyger <lyger () attrition org>]

http://www.dhonline.com/articles/2008/06/03/news/local/5loc10_osu.txt

The Oregon State Police is investigating the theft of personal information 
from as many as 4,700 online customers of the OSU Bookstore who used 
credit cards to purchase items.

In March, OSP began investigation into a report that approximately 30 OSU 
Bookstore customers. personal information may have been compromised 
following online orders.

Then last week, telephone calls and e-mails began coming into the 
bookstore from customers who had noticed fraudulent charges on their 
credit cards almost immediately after placing online orders, according to 
OSU Bookstore General Manager Steve Eckrich. "We immediately shut down our 
servers when we recognized it as an external breach," he said.

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