[Dataloss] Canton NY store data breach

[Henry Brown]

 From WWNY TV Watertown NY
http://tinyurl.com/6kdvmk

Canton police are investigating the theft of thousands of dollars from 
local bank accounts in what is being described as a major identity theft 
ring.

The trouble all started when someone apparently hacked into the Canton 
WiseBuys store computer system during a changeover between December 5 
and December 20.

The hacker obtained personal identification and banking numbers of 
hundreds of customers.

Hundreds of complaints have been coming in almost daily to the police 
station since the thefts first began being discovered by cardholders in 
early March.

Police say close to $100,000 was fraudulently taken in what police are 
describing as an “organized ring”.

Most of the illegal transactions were discovered when customers received 
their bank statements.

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