Jaikumar Vijayan reports: […] The [Heartland] intrusion led to the “stark realization that passing a PCI security audit does not make a company secure,” said Avivah Litan, an analyst at research firm Gartner Inc. “This was known well before the breach, but Heartland served as a big pail of ice water thrown on the face…
Category: Financial Sector
Hackers May Have Unearthed Dirt on Stanford
Brian Krebs writes: In early 2008, while federal investigators were busy investigating disgraced financier Robert Allen Stanford for his part in an alleged $8 billion fraudulent investment scheme, Eastern European hackers were quietly hoovering up tens of thousands customer financial records from the Bank of Antigua, an institution formerly owned by the Stanford Group. […]…
MA: Data breaches affect million state residents
Hiawatha Bray of the Boston Globe had an article in today’s paper about the 807 breach notifications the state received over a two-year period. The article referenced some breaches not previously reported in the media: Smaller incidents include the theft in October of three laptop computers from the Springfield accounting firm Moriarty & Primack. The…
Internet trading site collective2.com hacked
Davis D. Janowski reports: Users of the do-it-yourself trading site collective2.com received an “urgent” e-mail at a few minutes past noon Wednesday notifying them that the company’s computer database had been breached by a hacker and that all users should log in to change their passwords immediately. That e-mail, from Collective2 LLC founder Matthew Klein,…
Skimmers hitting debit card customers across N.C.
Dan Bowens reports: Cases in which debit card information has been stolen are cropping up across North Carolina, and officials said Tuesday that thousands of customers could be affected. The State Employees Credit Union informed about 300 customers in recent days that their account information had been obtained by skimmers and used to make withdrawals…
Major International Hacker Pleads Guilty For Massive Attack On U.s. Retail And Banking Networks
Albert Gonzalez, 28, of Miami, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to hack into computer networks supporting major American retail and financial organizations, and to steal data relating to tens of millions of credit and debit cards, announced Assistant Attorney General of the Criminal Division Lanny A. Breuer, U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey…