Ju-min Park of Reuters reports: South Korea’s financial watchdog launched an investigation on Monday into the leak of personal information from South Korea’s Hyundai Capital, the consumer finance unit of Hyundai Motor Group, a Financial Supervisory Service official said. Hyundai Capital said personal information on about 420,000 of its 1.8 million customers was leaked when…
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CT: Romanian admits role in ATM skimming scheme that defrauded People’s United Bank customers
Nadia Pasici, 49, a citizen of Romania residing in Middle Village, New York, pleaded guilty this week before United States District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to one count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud. The charge stems from Pasici’s participation in an ATM skimming scheme. According to court documents and statements made in…
NM: Former Wells Fargo employee sentenced for ID theft
Roberta Dunsworth, 53, a resident of Espanola, New Mexico, was sentenced this week in federal court to a 24-month term of imprisonment to be followed by one year of supervised release for her aggravated identity fraud conviction. As a condition of her supervised release, Dunsworth must perform 100 hours of community service. She also was…
And the hits just keep on coming for Epsilon
Note: CBS reports that the Secret Service is investigating the Epsilon breach. If you receive a phishing attempt that you want to report to the Secret Service, email [email protected]. You can also file a report at http://www.ic3.gov/default.aspx. I’ll add businesses to the list of affected customers as I become aware of them, so check back if…
Capital One, New York & Company both notifying customers of Epsilon breach
From Capital One‘s press release today: Capital One Financial Corporation (NYSE: COF) announced today that it was notified by Epsilon, a marketing vendor used to send e-mails, that an unauthorized person outside Epsilon gained access to files that included e-mail addresses of Capital One customers. Capital One has been informed that the compromised files did…
U.S. Bank notifies customers of Epsilon breach
And then were four (if I’m correct in my guess that Brookstone is also an Epsilon client). U.S. Bank has notified its customers of the Epsilon Interactive email list breach according to Boise Weekly, who have provided a copy of the email notification on their site.