Police in the Portland, Ore. suburb of Beaverton said they have photos and the identifications of suspects in some 50 fraud cases linked to the recent card data breach at the retail craft chain Michaels, the Beaverton Police Department.
The identified suspects are "from a larger organization which allows multiple crews to work numerous areas and move around quickly," police stated. Several Beaverton banks including US Bank assisted police by supplying still surveillance photographs of the suspects. Federal investigators are working with local detectives to help locate the suspects.
The breaches reportedly took place from February through early May and compromised thousands of customer debit and credit cards. Police said the cards were skimmed at a number of Michaels locations across the U.S., then counterfeited and used to withdraw funds from victims' bank accounts at ATMs.
Michaels made the breach public in May, and has since been hit with at least two lawsuits from Chicago-area consumers over compromised accounts.
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Natasha Chilingerian
Natasha Chilingerian has been immersed in the credit union industry for over a decade. She first joined CU Times in 2011 as a freelance writer, and following a two-year hiatus from 2013-2015, during which time she served as a communications specialist for Xceed Financial Credit Union (now Kinecta Federal Credit Union), she re-joined the CU Times team full-time as managing editor. She was promoted to executive editor in 2019. In the earlier days of her career, Chilingerian focused on news and lifestyle journalism, serving as a writer and editor for numerous regional publications in Oregon, Louisiana, South Carolina and the San Francisco Bay Area. In addition, she holds experience in marketing copywriting for companies in the finance and technology space. At CU Times, she covers People and Community news, cybersecurity, fintech partnerships, marketing, workplace culture, leadership, DEI, branch strategies, digital banking and more. She currently works remotely and splits her time between Southern California and Portland, Ore.
