Melissa Ziedy reports: Investigators now believe the security breach at major Phoenix mortgage company could be an inside job. A police report obtained by CBS 5 News details how last month officials at the Lending Company in north Phoenix contacted detectives. One of its managers had reported seeing a computer transferring customer’s personal information to…
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GA: Customers victims of fraud after bank info stolen
Tyler Estep reports: Officials at a Norcross-based bank stressed Friday that, despite account holders falling victim to fraud in recent days, their own systems have not been compromised. Approximately 100 members of Associated Credit Union have experienced fraudulent transactions in their checking accounts recently, bank spokeswoman Callie Calderbank said. The transactions are believed to be…
UK: Photos and details of children from Redditch are stolen
Documents containing personal information and photos of children in north Worcestershire have been stolen. Around 40 of the passport-type documents relating to children who play for two football teams were taken from a football coach’s car in Redditch. Read more on BBC. The Redditch Advertiser also reports the theft, as does the West Mercia Police…
All UK firms to face mandatory data breach notification regime
Dan Worth reports: All businesses in the UK that store data on customers will soon have to disclose any breaches, as the European Commission looks to widen the scope of recent changes to data protection laws. Speaking at the British Bankers’ Association (BBA) Data Protection and Privacy Conference in London on Monday, European Union justice…
Huge Bitcoin sell off due to a compromised account – rollback
On Mt. Gox site: [Update – 2:06 GMT] What we know and what is being done. It appears that someone who performs audits on our system and had read-only access to our database had their computer compromised. This allowed for someone to pull our database. The site was not compromised with a SQL injection as many…
Centaur website reveals guests’ personal info
Shilpa Phadnis reports: The Centaur Hotels’ website, centaurhotels.com, appears to have compromised personal information of its hotel guests, in what seems to be a case of poor internet security protocols implemented by the site. This allowed website visitors on Saturday to obtain and view details of passports, driving licences, pan numbers, credit cards, and other…