Steve Myers gives us a winner for email gaffe of the month: The Bank of England has been the latest victim of the internet. Well, no. They’re not a victim of the internet as much as they are a victim of their own human error, but read on…. They have taught all of us a very…
Category: Financial Sector
U.S. House panel issues subpoena to Fed over 2012 information leak
Michael Flaherty and Emily Stephenson of Reuters report: The chairman of a U.S. congressional committee on Thursday subpoenaed Federal Reserve documents and communications related to a 2012 leak of monetary policy information, ramping up his attack of the central bank’s handling of the case. Jeb Hensarling, a Republican of Texas who chairs the U.S. House…
Ringleader and Former Bank Teller in Orange County Bank Fraud and Identity-Theft Scheme Re-Arrested
Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman today announced the re-arrest of ringleader Tyrone “Reece” Lee and former bank teller Nadia Figueroa on a 50-count indictment in Orange County Supreme Court. The defendants, who are charged with running an identity-theft ring that stole over $457,000 from customers of Wachovia Bank (now Wells Fargo), both pleaded guilty earlier…
Female hacker arraigned for hacking and bank fraud in Lagos
Last month, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) announced the arraignment of an individual on charges of hacking a bank. This week, they announce an arraignment in a second hacking case: The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday May 14, 2015 arraigned one Mary Ozala before Justice Kudirat. A. Jose of the Lagos State High…
St. Louis Federal Reserve Suffers DNS Breach
Brian Krebs reports: The St. Louis Federal Reserve today sent a message to the banks it serves alerting them that in late April 2015 attackers succeeded in hijacking the domain name servers for the institution. The attack redirected Web searches and queries for those seeking a variety of domains run by the government entity to a Web page…
How to get yourself bad PR, Capital One edition
Betty Lin-Fisher reports: Louise Gunther of Fairlawn called recently to express her extreme frustration at how, despite six weeks of efforts to correct the problem, she was continuing to get what she felt was private information sent by email for someone else’s Capital One credit card. Gunther regularly checks the email for her domestic partner…