Matthew Finnegan reports: A Barclays Bank employee has received a fine of £3,360 for illegally accessing customer data. Jennifer Addo, 27, was prosecuted under section 55 of the Data Protection Act for 23 offences, including passing on details of a customer’s children. The bank was initially alerted when the customer contacted the bank to report…
Category: Financial Sector
Jala Transport, a small money-lending business, fined £5,000 by ICO after theft of unencrypted hard drive with customer data
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has served a monetary penalty notice on Jala Transport, a small money-lending business, after the theft of an unencrypted portable hard drive containing its customer database. The firm was regulated by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) at the time of the incident. According to the notice, on August 3, 2012,…
Equity Trust Company hacked from overseas IP addresses
A breach involving Equity Trust Company in South Dakota also flew under the media radar this year, it seems. In a letter dated April 16 to the Maryland Attorney General’s Office, Michael Dea, President of the Ohio-headquartered firm, writes that at the end of January, they discovered that part of their network had been accessed…
Experian reports another breach of its credit report database (update 2)
I haven’t been seeing as many breach reports by Experian this year, which could be a good sign, although it just could be that some states haven’t updated their breach lists in while. In any event, one just showed up on New Hampshire’s site that elevated an eyebrow. In a letter dated September 16 signed…
Barclays Bank Cyber Theft: 8 Arrested For Allegedly Hacking Computer System, Stealing $2 Million
Eight men have been arrested on suspicion of stealing 1.3 million pounds ($2 million) from a Barclays bank branch by tapping into its computers, British police said Friday. […] Detective Supt. Terry Wilson said one of the arrested men is the “Mr. Big” of British cybercrime. Police suspect that in both cases a gang member…
Windhaven Investment Management notifies customers months after vendor-maintained server was hacked (update 3)
Windhaven Investment Management is notifying clients that a server maintained by an unnamed vendor suffered an unauthorized intrusion several months ago. As a result, customers’ names, account numbers, custodians, and investment positions for their Windhaven account(s) may have been accessed. Neither Social Security numbers nor dates of birth were exposed. Windhaven learned of the intrusion last month, but…