Deja vu all over again: Indian call centres are selling Britons’ confidential personal data, including credit card information, medical and financial records to criminals and marketing firms for as little as two pence, an undercover investigation has discovered. Two ‘consultants’, claiming to be IT workers at several call centres boasted of possesing 45 different sets…
Category: Financial Sector
MF Global clients’ details published by KPMG
Norma Cohen and Philip Stafford report: Private clients of MF Global reacted angrily on Wednesday to what several said was a severe breach of privacy, after KPMG, administrator to the UK arm of the failed futures broker, published their identities, home addresses and the sums owed to them. The list, which includes corporate and institutional clients from the…
DHI Mortgage notifies loan applicants of server breach (Update 4)
A reader sends along an e-mail he received DHI Mortgage in Texas: We have reason to believe that the integrity of your personal information may have been compromised due to a security breach of the DHI Mortgage Loan Prequalification Website. On the evening of Friday, February 10, 2012, DHI Mortgage became aware that a software security…
AU: St George distributes client emails
Leonie Lamont reports: St George Margin Lending services has shared the email addresses of some 500 of its clients with other clients in a mass email sent out by the bank. A copy of the email, in which the addresses are contained, was sent to BusinessDay by one client. ‘‘Big privacy screw-up: It lists 500…
E*Trade Securities signs undertaking after loss of over 600 customers’ data
From the Information Commissioner’s Office: A financial services company with operations in the UK, USA and Middle East breached the Data Protection Act by losing over 600 customers’ personal details, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said today. E*Trade Securities Ltd discovered that a large number of customer files were missing in April 2010 when they…
Regions says employee 401k data lost when auditor Ernst & Young mailed flash drive and code key together
Russell Hubbard reports: Personal information about Regions Financial Corp. current and former employees was lost in November when a flash drive with the data came up missing after being mailed by outside auditor Ernst & Young in the same envelope as the decryption code. Read more on al.com.