Lincoln Police Looking Into Cases of Credit and Debit Card Fraud
1011Now TV news reports the Lincoln, Nebraska Police Department’s Technical Investigations Unit is currently looking into several credit and debit card fraud cases. Officer Katie Flood says the victims are from Lincoln, but the stolen credit and debit card numbers are being used to make purchases overseas in places like Hong Kong. Flood says this case involves accounts at numerous Lincoln banks and these cases started turning up over the weekend. Russia, Norway, South Africa and Canada are among the 20 countries where local money was spent. At West Gate in Lincoln, President Carl Sjulin says 50 of his customers are affected. Sjulin says he believes the security breach might have occurred at a Pennsylvania company that processes debit card transactions.
