More on the lawsuit and countersuit between Choice Escrow and Land Title and BancorpSouth, mentioned previously on this blog. Tracy Kitten reports: A federal court has sided with a Mississippi bank in a lingering dispute with a customer over financial losses linked to an account takeover incident dating back to March 2010. That means the bank will…
Category: Financial Sector
UK: Payday loans firm loses licence over identity theft loans
We don’t see this too often, but lack of adequate security costs this business its business, and the consequences were imposed by a regulator. Out-Law.com reports: MCO Capital Limited made loans in the name of 7,000 people whose identity was used by fraudsters without their permission or knowledge. The loans totalled millions of pounds and…
Attacks ‘highlight need for data breach notification law’
Paul Smith reports: The Australian Bankers Association has defended the strength of IT security processes in place across Australia’s banking system following the revelation that Reserve Bank of Australia systems had been compromised by China-based hackers. However, security experts said the incident highlighted the need for Australian data breach notification laws to be tightened to force…
Caribbean banks issue credit card alert (update 2)
I’ve continued to look for updates to recent reports of a breach affecting banks in the Bahamas. Is this related, I wonder: Banks and other financial institutions across the Caribbean have been impacted by a security breach at a financial institution in the region. This potential security breach can result in the compromise of a…
Interesting Bank of America data leak (updated)
Michael Kelley and Geoffrey Ingersoll report: Anonymous hackers have released 14 gigabytes of information allegedly related to Bank of America and a web intelligence firm it hired to spy on hackers and social activists last year. Emails detail how employees of TEKSystems actively watched hacker forums and social media sites for anyremotely relevant pieces of “intelligence.” Read more on Business Insider. Cyber War…
Magistrate Recommends Dismissal with Prejudice of Claims Against Global Payments
Craig Hoffman writes: Global Payments, which processes credit card transactions, announced on March 30, 2012 that an unauthorized person gained access to a portion of its processing system. Global Payments later disclosed that Track 2 data (card number, expiration date, verification code but not cardholder name or address) of 1.5 million cardholders were taken. Three…