[Dataloss] (update) Disney alerts movie-club members to privacy breach
lyger
lyger at attrition.org
Sat Jul 14 20:22:58 UTC 2007
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/business/orl-disneyclub1407jul14,0,534745.story
Credit-card information for an undisclosed number of Disney Movie Club
members worldwide was reportedly offered for sale -- illegally -- by an
employee of a sales account-processing company who was then arrested by
federal agents.
Disney sent letters last week to an undisclosed number of members of its
movie club, warning them that their names and addresses, and their credit
cards' types, numbers and expiration dates, were in the hands of a suspect
arrested in a federal undercover sting. One of Disney's warning letters,
dated July 6, was forwarded to the Orlando Sentinel on Friday.
[.]
David Haltinner, 25, of Wisconsin was arrested in the case in Wisconsin on
May 24 and charged in Nashville, Tenn., with a federal felony of
access-device fraud, according to federal officials. Details of the
criminal complaint are sealed, however, and officials of the U.S. Secret
Service, which ran the sting, and the U.S. Attorney's Office in Nashville
have declined to offer details so far.
[...]
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