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(follow-up) Moscow gets tough on cybercrime as ID theft escalates

Posted on March 22, 2010 by Dissent

Joseph Menn reports: Russia has quietly arrested several suspects in one of the world’s biggest cyberbank thefts, raising hopes of a previously unseen level of official co-operation in a country that has been a haven for criminals. The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB)has detained suspects including Viktor Pleshchuk, an alleged mastermind behind a £6m (€6.6m,…

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Firm denies hacking, stock manipulation charges

Posted on March 21, 2010 by Dissent

Elinor Mills reports: A Cyprus-based company accused of manipulating stocks on U.S. exchanges via compromised trading accounts denied the allegations on Friday, placing blame on “Russian swindlers.” A U.S. federal judge in New York agreed to freeze the assets of BroCo Investments on Tuesday, after the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filed a complaint alleging…

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New 5/3 debit cards ‘safety precaution’

Posted on March 19, 2010 by Dissent

WOOD-TV reports: A security breach through a third-party payment company prompted Fifth Third Bank to send new debit cards to its customers as a safety precaution. Bank officials sent a letter to customers and said the debit cards may have been compromised, but other sensitive information, such as Social Security numbers, were not accessed. The…

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20 Banking Breaches So Far in 2010

Posted on March 19, 2010 by Dissent

Linda McGlasson of bankinfosecurity.com reports: There have been 171 reported data breaches so far in 2010, and 20 of these involve financial services companies. This means that in less than one quarter of the year, we already have seen nearly one-third of the 62 banking-related breaches reported in all of 2009. The rest of the…

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Former National City Bank debit accounts hacked

Posted on March 18, 2010 by Dissent

Ieva M. Augstums reports: PNC Financial Services Group is investigating a systemwide account breach that affects former National City Bank customers and their debit card accounts. […] Bank officials were made aware of the data breach earlier this week, but Solomon would not say how many customers’ accounts have been compromised or how much money…

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U.S. likely to get peek at HSBC accounts

Posted on March 17, 2010 by Dissent

Yesterday, it was the U.K. in the news over announcements it would be getting tax records stolen from HSBC. Now it’s the U.S.’s turn, it seems. Reuters reports: “To the extent the HSBC data includes U.S. based taxpayers having interests in HSBC foreign accounts, it is a virtual certainty such information will be delivered to…

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