Canadian Tire (TSX:CTC) says it has cancelled and is re-issuing 16,000 Mastercard credit cards issued by its financial services arm over security concerns. Spokeswoman Lisa Gibson says the cards were deemed to be at risk after a widespread security breach disclosed last week by Heartland Payment Systems (NYSE:HPY), a U.S. credit card transaction processor. Gibson…
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NC: Probe of UNCG security breach finds fewer people put at risk
Ryan Seals reports: A computer breach discovered at UNCG in December didn’t effect as many students and employees as once thought, officials said Wednesday. An investigation of the breach, which was caused by a computer virus, revealed that a possible 275 people may have been impacted from the data loss. The breach was traced to…
NC: SECU probes fraud cases after security breach
Renee Chou reports: Officials with the State Employees Credit Union are investigating 40 cases of fraud in the wake of a security breach at a company that processes credit card payments nationwide. […] SECU receives card transactions through Visa, which receives the transactions from Heartland. The credit union has issued new credit cards and personal…
JP: Man breaks into apartment, installs computer virus to steal banking details
This seems to be a “first” for the area: Police have arrested a man for breaking into the home of another man and installing a virus on his computer, which he later used to obtain his online banking details and steal 9 million yen from his account. Takamasa Kondo, 37, of no fixed address, was…
Send in the lawyers (Heartland Payment Systems update)
Over on Computerworld, Jaikumar Vijayan reports that a class action lawsuit has been filed in the Heartland Payment Systems breach: […] A Pennsylvania law firm today filed the first class action lawsuit related to the breach. The lawsuit was filed by Chimicles & Tikellis LLP of Haverford, PA on behalf of Alicia Cooper, a resident…
UK: Details of the £229 million Japanese Bank Hacking Attempt Revealed
Computer hackers have reportedly applied sophisticated password-detection software application to steal £229million from one of the largest banking groups from Japan. The reports unveiled that a security supervisor from the bank helped Belgian hackers to enter into the offices of Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation in London back in 2004. […] The company accounts targeted by…