BUFFALO, N.Y.—Police believe information obtained in one of the national retail store data breaches was used by two men here to obtain cash from a local store using a “cloned” ESL FCU debit card.
An investigation by the New York State Police and the East Aurora Police Department is looking into how a counterfeited copy of the debit card, belonging to an ESL FCU member in Oakfield, N.Y., came to also be in the possession of two men who used it at a Tops store here. No arrests have been made in the case, according to the Buffalo News.
