Over on USA Today, Peter Eisler’s lead is about how more infiltrators are trying to plant malicious software they could use to control or steal sensitive data. Here’s another incident this week that mainstream media doesn’t seem to know about. Over on the FAA Follies blog, it’s been reported that the Cyber Security Management Center…
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First arrests made in Heartland data breach case
Chuck Miller reports: Three men have been arrested in Tallahasee, Fla., in connection with the Heartland Payment Systems data breach, authorities said. The men, Tony Acreus, Jeremy Frazier and Timothy Johns, each were charged with multiple counts of credit card fraud, police said. The arrests were part of a larger investigation into the breach, […]…
Heartland Data Breach: Maine Credit Union Says Reported Fraud has Tripled
Some interesting insights into the impact of the Heartland breach on a small credit union are provided in a BankInfoSecurity story: Last week [HealthFirst Credit Union of Waterville] in Maine thought it had seen the last of the Heartland Payment Systems data breach that had affected 261 of its members’ credit cards. Officials now report…
Pointer: Numbers keep rolling in on Heartland breach
Linda McGlasson of BankInfoSecurity reports: By the latest count, the number of institutions that have informed their card customers and members that they were hit as a result of the Heartland Payment Systems (HPY) data breach has swelled to 124. The second page of the article provides an alphabetical listing of banks that reported having…
Add Dime Savings Bank of Williamsburgh to list….
Kid #1 came in last night and threw the letter down on my desk in disgust. For the second time since June, Dime Savings Bank of Williamsburgh had notified him that his debit card was being replaced due to a breach and that he would have to personally come in to the bank to activate…
Huge bank card scam hits Bermuda
How curious…. Canadian Tire had told me that 2% of their customers’s cards had been misused as a result of the Heartland Payment Systems breach. Now another non-US entity mentions 2%. Have we gotten reports from any UK banks yet? Hundreds of debit and credit card customers in Bermuda have been dragged into one of…