Fuel cards hacked? Comdata warns of account thefts
Truck driver Albert Yoshimoto received a phone call a couple weeks ago from Comdata, the fuel card service he uses for his San Antonio-based fleet.
“Have you been writing a bunch of $1,000 checks?” the voice on the other line asked. “They’ve cashed a bunch of them overnight.” “They” turned out to be thieves who somehow learned enough about Yoshimoto’s Comdata account to write $12,000 worth of checks in one night, including several $1,000 checks
Hackers have increasingly targeted fuel card and checking service accounts used by truckers, several sources recently told Land Line Magazine. In an unscientific survey on landlinemag.com, users of Land Line’s news site indicated such theft is not unusual. The recent web poll showed that 10 percent of respondents have had their fuel card/check processor hacked either once or “a few times, while 15 percent said they pay for diesel with cash.
