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Category: Financial Sector

Falciani court date set over bank data theft charges

Posted on August 14, 2015 by Dissent

SwissInfo.ch reports that a former HSBC employee is closer to standing trial on data theft charges in a case that has had international repercussions: The ex-HSBC employee accused of stealing secret data from Swiss bank accounts is to go on trial in Switzerland in October. Hervé Falciani worked in IT at the bank’s Geneva branch…

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FTC closes non-public investigation of Morgan Stanley data breach

Posted on August 10, 2015 by Dissent

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…

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FBI says hackers shake down big banks, threaten to shut sites if they don’t pay up

Posted on July 30, 2015 by Dissent

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…

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Golden 1 Credit Union notifying customers after insider wrongdoing

Posted on July 30, 2015 by Dissent

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…

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Ca: Toronto man arrested following identity theft investigation

Posted on July 29, 2015 by Dissent

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.

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Credit union email gaffe exposes employee information

Posted on July 28, 2015 by Dissent

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…

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