follow-up: Roseville credit-card fraud traced to one restaurant

[security curmudgeon <jericho () attrition org>]

http://blogs.sacbee.com/crime/archives/2010/09/roseville-credi.html


September 15, 2010
Roseville credit-card fraud traced to one restaurant

By Bill Lindelof
blindelof () sacbee com

Hundreds of local cases in which thieves have collected credit-card 
numbers and used them to fraudulently make purchases have been traced to 
customers who frequented one Roseville restaurant, police said today.

Roseville police said that hundreds of credit-card numbers were 
compromised at Paul Martin's American Bistro.

Detectives believe that the problem is isolated to computer systems at the 
restaurant's site, 1455 Eureka Road, and "did not involve the external 
financial services network or any third-party data processing service," 
according to a police news release.

The cyber criminals who perpetrated the fraudulent credit-card activity 
are not known and could be operating anywhere in the world, police said.

The crooks were able to access the restaurant's credit-card processing 
system and steal credit-card numbers, which were then sold to other 
criminals and used to make purchases, police said.

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