TD Bank has notified the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office of an insider breach that does not appear to be the insider breach that made the media last month. According to the bank’s January 24 notification, between July and November of 2013, an employee may have passed along some customers’ names, addresses, Social Security numbers,…
Category: Financial Sector
URM updates breach notification
URM Stores has posted an update to a breach disclosed in November. The update indicates that the attack was “similar to” attacks reported by other grocery chains and retailers. URM was first alerted to the breach on October 31 by a bank, but its preliminary investigation did not uncover any signs of an attack. After…
EasyDraft notifies Bright Horizons Family Solutions customers of breach involving bank information
eCommerce payment processor EasyDraft is notifying Bright Horizons Family Solutions customers of a breach that started in October 2012 with a misconfigured server. The breach wasn’t discovered until January 2014, however, when Bright Horizons contacted EasyDraft to alert them to the problem. In their report to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office, lawyers for EasyDraft write: We…
Fox in the hen house: Personal information from 100 million South Korean credit cards stolen by contractor hired to forgery-proof credit cards
That latest data breach in South Korea is causing waves there, with estimates that 15-20 million have been affected by an insider breach at the Korea Credit Bureau: Worried Koreans on Tuesday packed into branches of one of the banks hit by the theft to ensure their money was safe, while lawyers said 130 people…
KR: Out of the country? You’re out of luck: Expats left out in info leak case
Kim Tae-jong reports: Potentially hundreds of thousands of expatiates have been left out in cold in the largest financial data theft case in Korea’s history. Financial regulators as well as credit card firms and their parent banks have not provided any services for foreign credit card holders to check whether their data was leaked, nor…
20 million people fall victim to South Korea data leak; FSS calls on financial institutions to improve protections against insider leaks
AFP reports: The personal data of at least 20 million bank and credit card users in South Korea has been leaked, state regulators said Sunday, one of the country’s biggest ever breaches. Many major firms in the South have seen customers’ data leaked in recent years, either by hacking attacks or their own employees. In…