Police in Clearfield, Utah are trying to identify a woman who allegedly stole around $24,000 from several Northern Utah financial institutions including $14,000 from one member's accounts at the Ogden, Utah-based America First Credit Union, The Salt Lake Tribune reported.
The suspect, whom one of the financial institutions caught on video with a branch security camera, allegedly used a stolen bank card and drivers license to withdraw $14,000 from one victim's accounts at two Utah branches of the $5.2 billion, 544,000-member America First CU in Clearfield and Layton, Utah, the paper said.
The latest credit union fraud case comes just a week after police in the Portland, Ore. suburb of Beaverton announced they had taken about 50 cases related to the card data breach at retail craft chain Michaels and released photos of several suspects shot by surveillance cameras at local banks. Beaverton police are working to identify and locate the suspects, they said.
The Utah crime also follows a massive debit card fraud breach in Northeast Ohio that affected about half a dozen credit unions and reportedly compromised tens of thousands of accounts.
The Utah case is not apparently connected to the Ohio, Oregon and Michaels cases.
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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.
