Back in January 2015, Morgan Stanley disclosed an insider breach (previous coverage here and here). It appears that the Federal Trade Commission opened an investigation into the breach under Section 5 of the FTC Act, but decided not to pursue any enforcement action. In a closing letter to Morgan Stanley’s counsel, Maneesha Mithal, Associate Director of the Division…
Category: Financial Sector
FBI says hackers shake down big banks, threaten to shut sites if they don’t pay up
Priya Anand reports: More than 100 companies, including targets from big banks to brokerages in the financial sector, have received distributed denial of service threats since about April, says Richard Jacobs, assistant special agency in charge of the cyber branch at the FBI’s New York office. With these types of attacks, known as DDoS, criminals…
Golden 1 Credit Union notifying customers after insider wrongdoing
So an employee engaged in naughty (illegal) conduct with respect to some of the customers’ accounts, and now you have to notify all customers whose data he may have accessed in the normal course of his duties? That’s what happened to Golden 1 Credit Union. From their notification template: We are writing to inform you of a…
Ca: Toronto man arrested following identity theft investigation
CityNews reports: After a two-month investigation, Halton police have charged a 48-year-old Toronto man with making identity information available for a fraudulent purpose. Moussa Kante, a former employee of GM Financial, was allegedly providing customers’ identity information to counterfeiters. Read more on CityNews.
Credit union email gaffe exposes employee information
Add Scient Federal Credit Union to the list of those exposing employee information due to an email error. The error occurred on July 14, and resulted in an unspecified number of employees’ details being sent to a prospective employee. The information, which was sent by secure email, included name, Social Security number, address, amount or…
IN: Woman given probation for role in ID theft scheme
Following up on a previously noted insider breach in the financial sector… NWI reports: A woman was sentenced Thursday to five years on probation and ordered to pay $47,449 in restitution to Fifth Third Bank for an identity theft scam, U.S. District Court records show. Kathryn Jackson was employed as a lead customer service representative…