WSPA in South Carolina reports that a consumer tipped them that a dumpster was filled with sensitive personal and financial information. The story doesn’t name the business, but the video coverage names it as Merrimack Mortgage:
Category: Financial Sector
e-Banking Bandits Stole $465,000 From Calif. Escrow Firm
Brian Krebs writes: A California escrow firm has been forced to take out a pricey loan to pay back $465,000 that was stolen when hackers hijacked the company’s online bank account earlier this year. In March, computer criminals broke into the network of Redondo Beach based Village View Escrow Inc. and sent 26 consecutive wire…
Former Bank of America teller sentenced for fraud
A former Bank of America teller was sentenced this week in federal court for bank fraud and identity fraud. Jeffrey C. Gautreaux, 26, of Peabody, Massachusetts was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Nathaniel M. Gorton to 41 months in prison, to be followed by 3 years of supervised release, with an order to pay $…
Spain uses stolen HSBC data for tax probe
Spain has become the latest country to tap data stolen from HSBC’s Swiss private banking arm by an IT employee to hunt down tax evaders…. according to local media reports, details on around 3000 accounts, which could hold around EUR6 billion, have been given to Spanish authorities. More on Finextra.
TX: Cases of identity theft reported
Thayer Evans has a report on fraud reports out of Texas that reminds us that sometimes fraud may not occur until years after a compromise or breach: League City police have received 15 to 20 reports of identity theft in the last two to three weeks, League City Police Lt. Bruce Whitten said. […] The…
Fraudulent Telephone Calls Allowing Fraudsters Access to Consumer Financial and Brokerage Accounts
The FBI Newark Division released a warning to consumers concerning a new scheme using telecommunications denial-of-service (TDoS) attacks. The FBI determined fraudsters compromised victim accounts and contacted financial institutions to change the victim profile information (i.e. email addresses, telephone numbers and bank account numbers). The TDoS attacks used automated dialing programs and multiple accounts to…