Calgary business in damage control mode after losing cash, customers to scammers | Globalnews.ca

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“They (scammers) didn’t come in the back door. They didn’t come in the front door. They’re very covert!” yyc

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Kroeker told Global News he had no idea the scammers had accessed clients’ credit card information until it was posted on the discussion forum Reddit. The post asked if anyone had their credit card compromised after using the company’s services, and there were multiple replies.Click to share quote on Twitter: "It was like a fire storm," Kroeker said about the comments.

Most of the complaints centered on the fact that shortly after they had used the company’s printing services, their cards had been compromised. Kroeker took to the forum to explain what happened, apologize and also state what the company had since done to protect information. He was asked why it took so long to contact clients, to which he responded he didn’t know how widespread the fraud was.“We had just finished our investigation, we had targeted a group of people we thought were in that window,” he said. “The lesson is maybe we should have just emailed everybody.

 

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The public is not safe. The municipal, provincial and Federal police services have completely failed the public.

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