Ellen Jia reports: At least 500 credit card bills were found dumped at a recycling station in the Pudong New Area yesterday, raising concerns over a possible leak of bank customers’ personal information. The bills, in more than 10 bunches of 50 each, were from the Shanghai Pudong Development Bank. The bank and the Pudong…
Category: Financial Sector
Credit Union MasterCard “glitch” reveals personal information
David Giles reports: It was not the type of password reset Patty Oglivie-Evans was expecting when she reset her Credit Union MasterCard password Wednesday morning. Oglivie-Evans was having trouble logging into her account and when she decided to reset her password, she ended up seeing another persons’ account history. […] That information included yearly salary,…
Samsung Card latest in line of data leaks
Kim Ji-hyun reports that criticism of Samsung Card is starting to pile up following its recent breach disclosure following an insider data leak: Samsung Card, one of the nation’s leading credit card companies, is under fire for trying to downplay the leak of clients’ personal information as concerns mount over the frequent exposure of such data…
Breaches have consequences: Watchdog penalizes Hyundai Capital after data leak
A follow-up to the Hyundai Capital breach first disclosed in April. At the time, Hyundai reported that approximately 420,000 of its 1.8 million customers had their names, resident registration numbers, mobile phone numbers and email addresses compromised by hackers. Now Yonhap News reports: South Korea’s financial watchdog on Thursday decided to issue an institutional warning…
First Federal Bank of Florida burglars nab computer equipment with unencrypted mortgage loan application data
On July 23, a break-in at First Federal Bank of Florida in Jacksonville resulted in the loss of computer equipment containing a wealth of unencrypted customers’ information provided for mortgage loan applications. Personal information included the customers’ names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, mothers’ maiden names, credit card numbers, bank account numbers, and driver’s…
(Update) Kr: Insider breach at Samsung Card may have affected 800,000 customers
Earlier this week, I noted a news story that Samsung Card in South Korea had referred an insider breach to the police. A report in the Korea Herald reveals the breach may be huge: Samsung Card Co., South Korea’s leading card firm, is suspected of having come under an online security breach that could have leaked…