In the justice system: Bernard James Brown Jr., a former bank credit card department manager at Eastern Virginia Bankshares, was sentenced to prison for bank fraud and identity theft. More. Investigators have identified suspects in a debit card fraud scheme affecting more than two dozen Macon and Bibb County residents and skimmers used at Raceway…
Category: Financial Sector
AU: Online share trader CommSec vulnerable to hackers
Nick Higginbottom and Stephen McMahon of Herald Sun report on how weak passwords just won’t cut it: Security at the nation’s biggest online trader has been exposed as wide open to attack by computer hackers. Security flaws at CommSec potentially endangered accounts containing billions of dollars of mum-and-dad investors’ money. After a Herald Sun investigation,…
UK: Barclaycard apologises to widow for 317-strong letter error
Gill Montia of Banking Times reports: Barclaycard has had to apologise to a Mrs Sandra Grant of Erith in Kent, after sending her 317 letters in one day. The recently widowed 55-year-old said it took her all morning to open the post, which contained details of various Barclaycard customers, including account numbers, names and amounts…
Ex-Fed Employee, Brother Arrested In Identity Theft Scheme
From Chad Bray of Dow Jones Business News comes word that Curtis L. Wiltshire, a former information/technical analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and Kenneth Wiltshire, his brother, were arrested in an alleged identity theft scheme: According to the charging document, Curtis Wiltshire had access to computer files containing personal information about…
Ca: Privacy breach in bank slip-up
It was one of those small breaches that many chronologies or industry reports do not include, but the fact that it made the media offers some hope that people continue to be concerned over breaches: Joanne Hatherly of The Times Colonist reports that when a customer was considering opening an account at an RBC Royal…
Hack Against ISP Hijacks Bank, Google Adsense
Brian Krebs reports that hackers hijacked the domain name system records for NET Virtua, a major Brazilian ISP, on April 11. “Customers who visited any site that ran Google Adsense content were redirected to a site that tried to install and run a Java applet that in turn installed a Trojan horse program.” The attack…