Developing…. It seems that every bank in the Bahamas has been notified of a breach at a foreign processor or acquiring bank. Most of the banks do not yet know how many of their customers’ card numbers are compromised, and while some banks have already started re-issuing cards, others are taking a wait-and-see approach. The…
Category: Financial Sector
UK: Bank employee fined for snooping in partner’s ex-wife’s banks statements
A Barclays employee who snooped in her partner’s ex-wife’s bank statements pleaded guilty in court to 11 offenses under section 55 of the Data Protection Act. The Information Commissioner’s Office reports she was fined £500 by Derby Crown Court and ordered to pay a £15 victim surcharge and £1,410.80 prosecution costs.
This ‘n that, Part 2
Another cup of coffee, and here’s some of what I’m reading: Western Connecticut State University is notifying 235,000 people their records, including social security numbers and other personal information, were insecure on its computers for three years and four months. WCSU said it has found no evidence that records were inappropriately accessed. Read about it…
Documents + unattended vehicles = yes, again
Karen Dillon reports that mortgage loan documents from Pulaski Bank that included applicants’ tax returns and other sensitive information were stolen from an unattended vehicle in September. The documents had reportedly been stolen from a loan official’s car while it was parked at a gym. This type of breach is certainly not new… I’ve been covering…
Za: PayGate confirms credit breach
Bianca Capazorio reports on a payment processor breach in South Africa that occurred back in August but is first being acknowledged this week by the firm, PayGate: The Payments Association of SA (Pasa) said on Friday that “the card data emanating from these online transactions seems to have been stored in a manner which does…
HSBC notifies customers after discovering former employee took customer data as a parting gift to himself
HSBC Bank USA National Association notified customers after an insider breach that occurred in July but was only posted to California‘s web site on October 30. It’s not totally clear to me when consumers were notified or when the state was. From the letter to those whose SSN’s weren’t involved: We recently became aware of an incident that…