More than a million customers have had their personal details “lost” after a data mix-up at a loan firm’s Birstall headquarters. The Cattles Group, which owns Welcome Finance loans firm, has written to customers informing them that two back-up storage discs with private information about 1.4 million customers have been misplaced. Marlene Proctor, 31, from…
Category: Financial Sector
Cn: 20,000 Taishin Int’l Bank clients’ data leaked
Personal information of as many as 20,000 applicants for cash cards issued by Taishin International Bank (台新銀行) have been found to be part of a massive leak of information to a con ring recently busted by the police, the Chinese-language Apple Daily reported yesterday. The police discovered the massive trove of personal information from a…
Ex-Credit Suisse worker guilty of data theft
And so a long-running data theft case ends. The Local (Switzerland) reports: The Swiss Federal Criminal Court sentenced on Thursday a former employee of Credit Suisse to a two-year suspended sentence for breaching bank secrecy laws and money laundering. The former bank worker was also fined 3,500 francs ($3,727) after he confessed to having stolen…
Ca: RBC client sees others’ private data online
An alert reader from north of the border sends in this one. Ellen Roseman reports: Ava Wong had her identity stolen in 2008. She spent the next year trying to get her financial life in order again. So, she was upset to log into her RBC banking account last month and find someone else’s confidential…
AU: Bank of Melbourne in privacy breach
Fran Foo reports: A technical glitch at Westpac’s Bank of Melbourne has inadvertently exposed sensitive customer information to other clients. The problem has resulted in some people requesting new credit cards. Although it apologised for the mistake, one Bank of Melbourne business customer, who received a vague letter of explanation from the bank, expressed shock…
Heartland gets most of banks’ claims dismissed over its massive data breach
Bonnie Barron reports that Heartland Payment Systems succeeded in getting a federal court judge to agree to dismiss most of the claims in a consolidated lawsuit filed by nine banks following a massive breach that affected millions of customers. Rosenthal granted the banks leave to amend the dismissed claims for breach of contract, breach of…