What is going on in South Korea? Analysts at GeminiAdvisory.io are reporting a major spike in payment cards. In a report released today, they write, in part: Gemini Advisory observed 42,000 compromised South Korean-issued CP records posted for sale in the dark web in May 2019, which is generally in line with monthly additions from…
Category: Financial Sector
Seattle woman charged in Capital One breach may have data from other companies
Mike Snider reports: A Seattle woman who is charged with taking data on more than 100 million customers from Capital One is reportedly a former Amazon Web Services systems engineer who may have accessed data from more companies. Read more on USA Today.
Capital One says data breach affected 100 million credit card applications
Devlin Barrett reports: Capital One, the Virginia-based bank with a popular credit card business, announced Monday that a hacker had accessed about 100 million credit card applications, and investigators say thousands of Social Security and bank account numbers were also taken. The FBI has arrested a Seattle area woman, Paige A. Thompson, on a charge…
AU: National Australia Bank Says Data Breached on 13,000 Customers
Russell Ward reports: National Australia Bank Ltd. has begun contacting about 13,000 customers whose personal information was breached in violation of its data security policies. Data including names, dates of birth and contact details were uploaded to the servers of two data service companies without authorization, the Melbourne-based lender said Friday in a statement. Read…
Brazilian banking users exposed by 250GB data leak
Angelica Mari reports: An unprotected server belonging to a Brazilian financial services provider has exposed a massive batch of data from customers of various local banks, security experts have found. The vulnerability has been detected by security researchers Data Group and the total file size of sensitive personal information available in the public domain is…
Personal Data (Incl. SMS & Calls) of Mobile Loan App Users in China Left OPEN for ALL to See
Jim Wilson of Safety Detectives reports on some of their team’s recent findings: Safety Detectives’ research team has recently discovered a sizeable data leak (over 899gb and growing by the day) of a China-based server, which has now been closed. We are unable to confirm the company behind the leak, but according to the data,…