The hacking ring allegedly at the centre of the world’s largest identity theft last week was also involved in cracking a network of Citibank-branded ATMs in 7-Eleven stores and operated by a third company, a law enforcement source claimed. […] In the case of the Citibank-branded ATMs, the perpetrators penetrated a network linking 2,200 kiosks…
Category: Financial Sector
I can’t picture this happening here
The Guardian in the UK published this letter: My mother regularly deposits pocket money in my 15-year-old son’s Bradford & Bingley savings account. Recently she paid in a £40 cheque at her local branch and asked for a receipt. She was handed a printed mini-statement showing his latest transactions. She did not feel she had…
Hacking kingpin negotiating plea deal with feds
The former government informant facing three separate indictments for allegedly being behind the largest data breaches in U.S. history is being offered a plea deal, U.S. and defense attorneys confirmed today. The plea negotiations with Albert Gonzalez, 28, of Miami, Fla., who was indicted Monday for the third time in connection with major data breaches,…
Laptop with loan data missing in Weber County
The Weber County Sheriff’s Office is concerned about a missing laptop from a loan officer that contains sensitive and personal information of hundreds of home owners in Utah. Deputies said the [Sun Valley Mortgage] loan officer accidently (sic) left his computer on a sidewalk instead of putting it in his car, a mistake that may…
Three indicted for hacking Heartland, 7-Eleven, and Hannaford; Over 130 million credit and debit card numbers stolen
An indictment [pdf] was returned today against three individuals who are charged with being responsible for five corporate data breaches, including the single largest reported data breach in U.S. history, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Ralph J. Marra, Jr., along with Assistant Attorney General of the Criminal Division Lanny A. Breuer and United States Secret Service…
More on the AmEx breach or is that breaches???
Now that they’ve released the names of those arrested, it’s still unclear to me whether this is a second recent breach involving an employee or if these people were part of the some ring where an arrest of another individual who was an AmEx employee was made last month. Vindy.com reports: Cases against five people…