MBNA, the UK¹s largest credit card provider, has confirmed that a laptop containing the personal details of its customers has been stolen from one of its third party contractors NCO Europe Ltd earlier this month. The information is said to include personal details, however, no PIN numbers were reported to be contained in…
Month: December 2009
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!
Although PHIprivacy.net will continue posting over the next holiday week, I just wanted to take a minute to wish you and your families a happy and healthy holidays. Note that Santa’s x-ray wound up exposed on the web. I hope your personal health information is better protected than that! 🙂
Nl: Rabobank loses customer data
Karin Spaink provides an English summary of some news reports that a Rabobank employee lost a USB drive containing personal and financial data on 3000 customers: An employee of the Rabobank lost his USB stick, which held the data of 3000 customers. Apart from the personal information of each of those customers, the stick contained…
Suspected computer hack compromises Anchorage credit, debit card holders
Christine Kim reports: Just a simple swipe can lead to a ripple of consequences. Up to 1,000 Anchorage residents may be affected by a credit card crime. Police say it may have been a computer hack that stole the information about credit and debit card holders. Detectives are still trying to figure out who was…
Inmate gets 18 months for hacking prison computer
In a follow-up to a case reported in September, Robert McMillan reports: A former Massachusetts prison inmate has been given an 18-month prison sentence for hacking prison computers while he was incarcerated. Francis “Frank” Janosko, 44, was sentenced Tuesday in federal court in Boston for abusing a computer provided by the Plymouth County Correctional Facility….
Citigroup, law enforcement refute cyber heist report
Jeremy Kirk and Robert McMillan report: Citigroup and a federal law enforcement source on Tuesday refuted a claim that the bank’s customers lost millions of dollars in an advanced cyber heist over the summer, leaving lingering questions over details of the alleged attack. […] A source within federal law enforcement who declined to be identified…