Back on March 20, United Shore Financial Services, LLC notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office that they had experienced an intrusion into a server containing mortgage applicants’ names, contact information, dates of birth, drivers’ license numbers, Social Security numbers, and financial information. The letter did not specify whether the server was their own server…
Category: Financial Sector
Fed Evaluating Breach of Employee Data With Law Enforcement
Jeff Kearns reports: The Federal Reserve is working with law enforcement authorities to investigate the posting of employee data on a website today. The central bank’s critical operations weren’t affected, the Fed said. Individuals claiming to be part of the hacker group known as Anonymous posted what they said were “full details of every single employee at…
IE: Data breach involving payments to current and former IBRC staff
A personal data breach at the former Anglo Irish Bank has seen letters and payments sent to the wrong people with dozens of current and former employees at the liquidated bank affected. The special liquidators at the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation (IBRC), KPMG, have confirmed a personal data breach involving cheques that were “misdirected” to…
Lutz Otte, German IT specialist employed by Julius Baer, sentenced to 3 years for Swiss data theft
Oliver Hirt reports on sentencing in a 2011 breach reported previously on this blog: A Swiss court on Thursday sentenced a 54-year-old computer specialist to three years in jail for selling client data from Swiss bank Julius Baer to the German tax authorities, after the man agreed a plea deal with prosecutors. […] Otte sent…
TW: Local bank fined over online security breach
Stacy Wu and Jay Chen report: CTBC Bank, one of Taiwan’s top financial institutions, was fined NT$4 million (US$134,000) Thursday for accidentally leaking the personal information of some 33,000 of its e-banking customers. The error allowed the average Internet user to view confidential data, intended for CTBC Bank staff only, for an undisclosed period of…
Banking information for City of Nanaimo customers safe from big security breach
Darrell Bellaart reports: The City of Nanaimo says customer banking information is safe from a security breach that affected other municipalities that use the same online bill-paying software. On Friday, the city learned about a cyber-threat to an application used to power web applications for online billing, licensing and tax statements. The threat could result…