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(Update) Kr: Insider breach at Samsung Card may have affected 800,000 customers

Posted on September 8, 2011 by Dissent

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…

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Kr: Samsung Card asks police to investigate employee for data leak

Posted on September 5, 2011 by Dissent

Samsung Card Co., one of South Korea’s largest credit card firms, has asked the police to investigate an employee on charges of leaking the personal data of its customers, an industry source said Monday. According to the source, Samsung Card discovered through an internal investigation that customers’ data including their names and mobile phone numbers…

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Yet another printing error: Berkshire Bank

Posted on August 23, 2011 by Dissent

Ah. Another printing gaffe. Berkshire Bank, which advertises itself as “America’s Most Exciting Bank,” had a bit more excitement than they hoped for, it seems.  On June 24, the bank notified some customers  that due to an error, their loan account numbers were printed on the outside of the envelope above their name and address….

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Some of WikiLeaks’ Bank of America data destroyed

Posted on August 23, 2011 by Dissent

Reuters reports: Some internal Bank of America files obtained by WikiLeaks have been destroyed, according to a former close collaborator of Julian Assange, the whistleblowing website’s founder. In an email to Reuters, Daniel Domscheit-Berg, who last year was fired by Assange as WikiLeaks’ co-spokesman, confirmed that he had destroyed “roundabout” 3,000 submissions WikiLeaks received related…

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Ca: Personal data from mortgage broker found in garbage bin

Posted on August 17, 2011 by Dissent

Miranda Scotland reports: Construction workers found five boxes of files containing personal information in a garbage Tuesday in Edmonton. The files from a mortgage broker contained information such as social insurance numbers, credit card information and mortgage values, said Wayne Wood, spokesman for Alberta’s privacy commissioner which is investigating. There are a lot of people’s…

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Officials: S.J. ringmaster used inside help to steal more than $200K from TD Bank customer accounts

Posted on August 7, 2011 by Dissent

Jim Walsh reports: For more than two years, Kashon Adade sent many customers to TD Bank offices in South Jersey, authorities say. But all that business wasn’t welcome. Investigators claim Adade ran a bank-fraud ring that relied on insider help and identity theft to drain about $200,000 from the accounts of unsuspecting TD Bank customers….

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