A group claiming to have hacked a Dexia Bank subsidiary’s database is threatening to post sensitive customer information unless it receives an “idiot tax” of EUR150,000 by Friday. In a pastebin statement addressed to the media, the unnamed group says it has “downloaded extensive confidential customer information” from servers belonging to Elantis, a mortgage and consumer credit…
Category: Financial Sector
Global Payments breach went on for at least 8 months – revised estimate
Brian Krebs has an update on the Global Payments breach: A hacker break-in at credit and debit card processor Global Payments Inc. dates back to at least early June 2011, Visa and MasterCard warned in updated alerts sent to card-issuing banks in the past week. The disclosures offer the first additional details about the length of the breach since Global Payments…
Computer specialist who had warned Iranian banks about vulnerability, hacks and dumps 3 million accounts to make his point
Is it just me, or have these folks missed the point? From The Tehran Times: A computer specialist, who used to work for a PSP (payment service provider) company which offers a number of Iranian banks services for accepting electronic payments, has hacked accounts of three million bank customers to show the vulnerability of the…
Global Payments confirms data breach (Update 2)
After being named by the Wall Street Journal earlier today, Global Payments Inc. has issued a press release about the breach reported earlier today by Brian Krebs: Global Payments Inc, a leader in payment processing services, announced it identified and self-reported unauthorized access into a portion of its processing system. In early March 2012, the…
Sources: Global Payments breached – Wall Street Journal
Robin Sidel and Andrew R. Johnson report: Global Payments Inc., which processes credit cards and debit cards for banks and merchants, has been hit by a security breach that has put some 50,000 cardholders at risk, according to people with knowledge of the situation. Read more on the Wall Street Journal. Global Payments has not…
Visa statement on payment processor breach
As Brian Krebs made us all aware earlier today, Visa and MasterCard have been notifying financial institutions about a payment processor breach that may affect millions of people. For those who are relatively new to these things, this is not a breach at Visa or MasterCard. It appears to be a breach at an as…