Human error strikes again. Claude Solnik reports: Bethpage Federal Credit Union on Tuesday said personal information of 86,000 consumer VISA debit card accounts had been exposed on the Internet. The company said an employee on May 3 posted data on a file transfer protocol site that the employee believed to be secure. But Bethpage Federal later…
Category: Financial Sector
AU: Privacy Commissioner finds Act breached by super fund
ABC (AU) reports an update on a situation previously mentioned on this blog where simple url manipulation exposed information: A superannuation company that allowed the private details of its customers to be leaked online has been found to have breached the Privacy Act. In September last year, a flaw was discovered in First State Super’s computer systems,…
TN: Personal Records Found in Dumpster
Some breaches make me want to curse. This news report out of Sevierville, Sevier County in Tennessee makes me want to yell, “When the hell are businesses going to start getting fined for just dumping unshredded files with PII?” … Kim Pierce runs a video store in Sevierville and was shocked at what she found…
Brian Krebs: Global Payments Breach Fueled Prepaid Card Fraud
Brian Krebs has more on the Global Payments breach and how it fueled prepaid card fraud. You can read his report on Krebs on Security.
OR: Former Bank Manager Guilty of Identity Theft, Bank Fraud
Another insider breach involving bank personnel: Randy Arlan Mainwaring, 41, former manager of the Thurston Branch of Key Bank in Springfield, Oregon, pled guilty to identity theft and bank fraud in federal court Monday. He is scheduled to be sentenced on July 17, 2012 before U.S. District Judge Michael R. Hogan. In pleading guilty, Mainwaring…
TX: Former Capital One Bank employee pleads guilty in ID theft scheme
Jamal Gerard Mose-Burrel, 22, of Houston, entered a guilty plea to conspiracy to commit bank fraud and aggravated identity theft last week. Mose-Burrel, who formerly worked for Capital One Bank, admitted that he used Capital One Bank systems to provide a co-conspirator identified only as “T.J.” with the personal information and bank account information of…