John Leyden reports: Metro Bank, the newly established UK retail bank, has irked its customers with a schoolboy email error. The latest marketing missive from the bank was sent using all the email addresses in to To: field instead of using the bcc (blind carbon copy) field. In the process, the bank disclosed the email…
Category: Financial Sector
Stephen Foley: Calm down – despite the data breaches, there’s little actual fraud on the cards
Stephen Foley comments in The Independent on the recent CitiGroup breach and tries to prevent kneejerk reactions. He writes, in part: […] There have been 288 publicly disclosed breaches of financial services companies’ computer systems, according to the Identity Theft Resource Centre, and 83 million customer records compromised. That would suggest that, even if you…
Citibank confirms hacking attack
Hackers have stolen data from thousands of Citibank customers in the US, the bank has confirmed. The breach exposed the names of customers, account numbers and contact information. But other key data, such as date of birth and card security codes were not compromised, the bank said in a statement. Citigroup is the latest in…
MN: Three sentenced for stealing identities, obtaining more than $150,000 from victims
Last Friday in federal court, a 34-year-old Maplewood woman was sentenced for her role in a scheme that was using the names and personal identification information of others on fraudulent checks resulting in a total attempted loss of more than $300,000. United States District Court Judge David S. Doty sentenced Nou Thao to time already…
Scotiabank loses CDs with customer bank accounts, social insurance numbers
Mary Gazze of The Canadian Press reports: Scotiabank says it will use digital locks on data discs after three CDs containing unencrypted information, such as customer social insurance and account numbers, were lost in its internal mail system. The bank said a “small percentage” of customers are affected, but it is warning clients as a…
Financial data stealing Malware now on Amazon Web Services Cloud
Dmitry Bestuzhev of Kaspersky writes: There were some recent comments about Amazon Cloud as a platform for successful attacks on Sony… Well, today I found that Amazon Web services (Cloud) now is being used to spread financial data stealers. The evidence indicates that the criminals behind the attack are from Brazil and they used several…