Matthew Goldstein and Nicole Perlroth report: It has become a familiar pattern: The computer system of a big American company is breached, the personal information of tens of millions of customers is stolen and a public outcry ensues. Rarely are the thieves caught. But last summer’s attack on JPMorgan Chase — which resulted in hackers…
Category: Financial Sector
MO: Former Programmer Pleads Guilty to Stealing Software Code from Federal Reserve Bank
Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a former software programmer for the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City pleaded guilty in federal court today to stealing software code. Hamid Reza Tahmasebi, 54, of Leawood, Kan., waived his right to a grand jury and pleaded guilty before U.S. District…
TN: Former bank employee charged with stealing customer identities
George Brown reports: A former Regions Bank employee is due in court today in connection with an identity theft ring. Investigators say Kimbriuna Dyer used her job to access information. Read more on WREG.
NCUA releases OIG report on Oct. Palm Springs FCU data breach
There’s a follow-up to a Palm Springs Federal Credit Union breach reported last year. The Credit Union National Association (CUNA) writes: The National Credit Union Administration’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) has released a review regarding a data breach that occurred late last year. The agency confirmed that an external flash drive containing personal information for approximately…
Anti-Israeli hackers target Louisiana’ Rapides Parish Police Jury, Bank websites
Waqas writes: The online hacktivist AnonGhost is on a hacking spree with targeting websites of top law enforcement agencies in the United States. A couple of days ago the hacktivists hacked the official website of Larimer County Sheriff’s Office not once but twice in a week. Today, the same group has hacked and defaced the official website of state of Louisiana’s Rapides Parish…
How the HSBC whistleblower used the Internet to leak private bank information to the police
Stefano Pozzeban reports: Hervé Falciani, the French-Italian whistleblower who handed over information on 100,000 HSBC client accounts to French authorities in 2009, has published a detailed account on how the transfer of the data actually took place. The IT engineer has published a book, La Cassaforte degli Evasori, which tells his side of the story, writing how he…