Catalin Cimpanu reports: Attunity, an Israeli IT firm that provides data management, warehousing, and replication services for the world’s biggest companies, has exposed some of its customers’ data after it left three Amazon S3 buckets exposed on the internet without a password. The leaky AWS S3 buckets contained information on Attunity’s own operations, but also…
Category: Financial Sector
Anonymous hacker exposed after dropping USB drive while throwing Molotov cocktail
Catalin Cimpanu reports: In a bizarre investigation, Belgium police have identified a member of the Anonymous Belgium hacker collective while investigating an arson case at a local bank. The perpetrator, a 35-year-old man from the Belgian city of Roeselare, was initially arrested after throwing a Molotov cocktail at the Crelan Bank office in Rumbeke, a…
Desjardins: Rogue employee caused data breach for 2.9 million members
Frédéric Tomesco reports: More than 2.9 million Desjardins Group members have had their personal information compromised in a data breach targeting Canada’s biggest credit union. The incident stems from “unauthorized and illegal use of internal data” by an employee who has since been fired, Desjardins said Thursday in a statement. Computer systems were not breached,…
Russian Banks Leaked Personal Data From 900k Clients
Tanya Chepkova reports: Clients from the top three Russian banks entrusted their data — including phone numbers, addresses, and IDs — to the financial institutions. Now, this sensitive information is publicly available. Databases with sensitive personal information about the clients of the top Russian banks — including Alfa Bank, the country’s largest commercial bank —…
Almost 100,000 Australians’ private details exposed in attack on Westpac’s PayID
Ben Grubb and Clancy Yeates report: The private details of almost 100,000 Australian bank customers have been exposed in a cyber attack on the real-time payments platform PayID, which allows the instant transfer of money between banks using either a mobile number or email address. The attack on Westpac, which also affects customers from other…
Bank customers’ personal data sold to credit card salespeople: Kompas investigation
The Jakarta Post reports: A network of credit card salespeople and bank employees have been trading the personal information of bank customers and credit card holders with each other in an effort to make quicker sales, as reported by Kompas daily in a recent investigation. Personal information sold by the salespeople comprised a customer’s name,…