Capital One is notifying some credit card customers that they may be at risk of fraudulent charges on their card. In a letter sent to those affected, Douglas Woodward, Vice President of Operations, writes: We believe that a former employee may have improperly accessed your account. While we don’t see any potential fraud on your…
Category: Financial Sector
Irish credit union gaffe exposed almost 5,000 customers’ loan information online
Ah, this report from December 24th slipped by me. Cormac Murphy reports: In a major blunder, the borrowing amounts, loan durations and arrears of 4,971 members of Tullamore Credit Union were made public. The private database became freely available via the lender’s website last week and remained accessible for at least two days, it is…
W.J. Bradley Mortgage Capital notifies clients after employee took their information to her new employer
Some companies shield others’ names in their breach notifications. Others are not averse to naming names. Consider this breach notification from W.J. Bradley Mortgage Capital: The purpose of this letter is to notify you of a breach of some personal information that you disclosed to W.J. Bradley Mortgage Capital, LLC (“WJB”) in connection with a…
Credit card fraud in Lake Saint Louis traced to skimmer; suspects apprehended
On November 13, media reported that about 300 people in Lake Saint Louis, Missouri had become victims of credit card fraud. The next day, media reported that the source of the stolen data may have been an ATM skimmer. And on November 22, media reported that two suspects had been apprehended in Omaha on November…
NZ: Bank’s embarrassing privacy breach
Rob Kidd reports: ANZ has been left red-faced over a major privacy breach after it inadvertently sent bank statements for customers’ accounts containing hundreds of thousands of dollars to a two-year old boy. The bank botch saw Whangarei toddler Joel Morrison sent a pile of other people’s account statements, all of which contained considerably more…
JPMorgan Chase & Co. explains delay in notifying Connecticut about online security breach
JPMorgan Chase has attempted to explain the delay in notification to Connecticut, but at least one Connecticut official is not satisfied. Ed Jacovino reports: JPMorgan Chase & Co. says it waited to determine what information could have been involved in an online security breach before telling officials this week that people with state-issued debit cards…