Tessa Norman reports: The number of customer data loss incidents reported to the FCA [Financial Conduct Authority] has increased significantly in the past year. A Freedom of Information request published by the FCA shows that in 2013, the regulator was notified of 13 incidents where firms have lost customer data or had it stolen. Some…
Category: Financial Sector
UK: Birmingham banker fined for reading colleagues’ bank accounts
From the Information Commissioner’s Office: A Birmingham banker has been fined after he admitted reading his colleagues bank accounts. Dalvinder Singh, 29, from Yardley, Birmingham, worked in Santander UK’s suspicious activity reporting unit at their Leicester office. His role investigating allegations of money laundering meant he was able to view customer accounts. But he used…
KPCB notifies employees and partners of laptop theft
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers is a venture capital firm located in Menlo, California. Over the weekend of July 19-20, their building and office security were circumvented and several laptops were stolen. Two of the laptops were used by personnel in their finance department and contained employees’ and partners’ names, contact information, Social Security numbers and…
CT: Bank teller used customer information for counterfeit checks
Kait Shea reports: A former People’s United Bank teller in Trumbull is charged with stealing customer information to create counterfeit checks. Robert Walker of Bridgeport was arrested Aug. 18. He was a teller at the Peoples United Bank branch at Stop & Shop in Trumbull. Walker is charged with trafficking of personal identifying information, first…
GA: Henry County PD issues ID theft alert
Neighbor Newspapers reports: The Henry County Criminal Investigations Division and investigators from Sun Trust Bank began conducting an investigation Aug. 14 in which 225 customers’ accounts have been compromised. Customers using the Sun Trust Bank automated teller machine at 942 Hwy. 81 East, McDonough, Aug. 1 between 7 a.m. and 10 p.m. may have had…
European Central Bank receives blackmail letter after hack
The Local reports: The European Central Bank in Frankfurt has received a blackmail letter after its public website was hacked and contact data stolen, the bank said on Thursday. “There has been a breach of the security protecting a database serving (our) public website,” the ECB said in a statement. “This led to the theft…