Best Buy Employee Steals 4,000 Credit Card Numbers

Identity theft protection may be high on the list of previous Best Buy customers in Florida. The popular electronics store in West Palm Beach, Florida is dealing with a former employee who stole over 4,000 credit card numbers of customers shopping during the 2008 holiday season.

This employee, hired as a cashier during the hectic holiday seasons, had been using a skimming device (a device that reads and stores credit card numbers) to obtain the numbers, then sold the numbers to another person. They then were resold again by the recipient.

Best Buy is notifying affected customers, but if you had shopped at the store during November and December of 2008, your information could be at risk and you should call their customer care line at 866-792-6391.

Due to the blatant nature of this theft of credit card numbers it is highly recommended that customers who had their personal information stolen look in to a credit monitoring service.