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Four sentenced in NJ for their role in $30 million international bank fraud and ID theft ring

Posted on August 10, 2010 by Dissent

Four of 17 defendants, all of whom were convicted of conspiring to engage in an international telemarketing and identity theft scheme to defraud financial institutions and tens of thousands of account holders out of millions of dollars through the unauthorized debit of customer bank accounts (the “Telemarketing and Identity Theft Conspiracy”), were sentenced by United…

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UK: Hackers steal from thousands of bank accounts in latest security breach

Posted on August 10, 2010 by Dissent

More on the breach previously mentioned in another blog entry. Victims at one bank have lost between £1,000 and £3,000 each thanks to a ‘trojan horse’ program developed by the cyber criminals. The name of the high street bank has yet to be released as the information has just been handed to the police. The…

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Tuesday’s batch of newly uncovered breaches

Posted on August 10, 2010 by Dissent

In response to my Freedom of Information request, I received a batch of 15 breach reports received in February by the Maryland Attorney General’s Office. Of the 15, five of them were news to me: M&T Bank reported that an individual walked into their Pikesville branch and while talking with a branch manager, removed another…

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Malware gang steal over £700K from one British bank

Posted on August 10, 2010 by Dissent

John Leyden reports: A banking Trojan attack has led to the fraudulent withdrawal of more than $1m from online banking accounts maintained with a UK bank since the start of July, according to security researchers. Web-based malware based on the infamous Zeus cybercrime toolkit is being used to steal money via the unnamed bank’s online…

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Vermont reports uncover three more breaches

Posted on August 9, 2010 by Dissent

From breach reports to Vermont, here are three more breaches I didn’t know about previously: Cathedral Square notified residents that their only payment processing system had been compromised, resulting in access to the residents’ names, bank account numbers, and routing numbers if they paid their rent electronically.  Residents do not seem to have been offered…

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Maryland reports reveal yet more breaches

Posted on August 9, 2010 by Dissent

Thanks to the Maryland Attorney General’s Office, I just received copies of the 22 breach reports they received in January of this year. They’ll be sending me the rest of the reports received this year in the very near future. Looking through what they sent me, I see that we knew about the majority of…

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