Tim Hull reports: A man who admitted to a $300,000 fraud on Chase Bank is not guilty of aggravated identity theft, the 9th Circuit ruled Thursday. Doren Ward conceded that in 2011 he worked with co-consipirators in the United Kingdom to steal the personal information of various Chase Bank customers and impersonate them to obtain…
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UK: Barclays customers hit by data theft slam “chicken feed” compensation
Grimsby Telegraph has an update to a breach previously noted on this blog: Barclays Bank has come under fire after offering just £250 in compensation to customers whose confidential files were stolen and sold to rogue City traders. At least 2,000 of the bank’s customers were affected by the theft, which included details of their…
More TD Bank insider breaches
On March 1, I blogged about numerous insider breaches TD Bank has reported in the past few years. I updated that report on March 9 with even more breaches that I uncovered via public records that were subsequently made available. Today, I received a response to a public records request to the North Carolina Attorney…
UK: ICO decides against probe of Santander email spam scammers
John Leyden reports: Santander customers say they are continuing to be deluged with Trojans and other junk to email addresses exclusively used with the bank months after the problem first surfaced back in November. At least two Reg readers have put in complaints to the Information Commissioner’s Office. But the data privacy watchdog told us that it has “insufficient…
Notorious hacker “Diabl0” caught in Bangkok
From the Bangkok Post: Infamous international hacker Farid Essebar was arrested on Tuesday following a joint operation between Thai and Swiss authorities who have been tracing the man for more than two years….. The 27-year-old Russian citizen is wanted on a computer crime charges arrest warrant in Switzerland. He is accused of cracking banking computer…
Men from Ukraine and New York indicted in U.S. cybercrime case
Jonathan Stempel reports: Federal prosecutors on Monday announced the indictment of three men they accuse of being members of an international cybercrime ring that tried to steal at least $15 million by hacking into U.S. customer accounts at 14 financial institutions and the Department of Defense’s payroll service. Oleksiy Sharapka, 33, and Leonid Yanovitsky, 39,…