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…
Category: Financial Sector
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…
A.G. Schneiderman Announces Prison Term For White Plains Bank Teller Who Stole Customer Data In Identity Theft Ring
Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman today announced sentencing of Nadia Figueroa, 24, of the Bronx, to two to six years in state prison. Figueroa pleaded guilty earlier this year to stealing customer data while employed as a bank teller at a JP Morgan Chase in White Plains, as part of a brazen identity-theft ring. The…
DOJ: Cyber extortionists targeting hedge funds
Kaja Whitehouse reports: The government is working with “several” hedge funds that have been victims of cyber extortionists, said John Carlin, head of the Justice Department’s National Security Division. Carlin made the comments Friday at the SALT hedge fund conference in Las Vegas, where he came to warn the crowd, made up of hedge fund…
Tampa Man Sentenced To Seven Years For Credit Card Fraud And Identity Theft
Ricardo Romero-Mesa (44, Tampa) was sentenced on Friday to seven years in federal prison for conspiracy to commit credit card fraud and aggravated identity theft. The Court also ordered him to forfeit $13,423.79, which are the proceeds traceable to his criminal conduct. He pleaded guilty on January 15, 2015. According to court documents, in early…
JP Morgan bank bod accused of flogging customer account info
Iain Thomson reports: The FBI has charged a former JP Morgan employee with selling customer information to thieves who wanted to empty accounts without triggering any alarms. Unsealed court records [PDF] recount that Peter Persaud, who worked at JP Morgan’s Brooklyn branch, contacted an undercover FBI informant, and allegedly offered to sell him the account details of…