Sun News Staff reports: On March 1, a financial advisor at US Bank, 5154 Wilson Mills, reported a laptop missing from his desk. The bank assistant manager noticed the laptop missing, but did not report it because she knew the financial advisor sometimes took the laptop home. The advisor told police the laptop contained sensitive…
Category: Financial Sector
Former Houston bank teller pleads guilty to selling customer data
A Houston area bank teller has pleaded guilty to bank fraud arising from a scheme to steal thousands of dollars from his former employer’s customer accounts, U.S. Attorney José Angel Moreno announced Tuesday. Christopher Martin, 25, of Houston, appeared before United States District Judge Nancy Atlas and pleaded guilty to bank fraud admitting that while…
(update) HSBC: Data theft incident broader than first thought
New reports out yesterday indicate that the theft of HSBC client data was bigger than initially reported, but the reports differ as to how big it really was. Jeremy Kirk reports on Computerworld: HSBC said Thursday about 15,000 accounts of its Swiss private banking unit were compromised after an employee allegedly stole data, some of…
Thrivent Financial Suffers Breach Of Security
A Great Lakes-based insurer says it has suffered a security breach that may have compromised sensitive client data. Thrivent Financial for Lutherans, Minneapolis, says it experienced a break-in at one of its offices in Pennsylvania. A laptop computer was among the items stolen. The laptop had safeguards to protect sensitive information, including strong password protection…
Police are investigating identity theft, grand larceny at local bank
Goshen — The Village of Goshen Police Department [in New York] is investigating a scheme to commit identity theft and grand larceny at the Goshen branch of the Bank of America, located at 54 West Main Street. On March 2, several residents reported unauthorized withdrawals from their ATM accounts made at various Bank of America…
Report confirms private banking websites are flouting client privacy
Tara Loader Wilkinson reports: According to a report published by Swiss research group MyPrivateBanking last week, 61% of banks do not offer secure web messaging. And nearly 60% do not give privacy warnings to users of their website about sending unprotected e-mails to recipients at the bank. […] More than half of banks offered a…