Alonzo Lamar Holloway, 44, of Oakland, California, was sentenced on Monday on a four-count Indictment that charged him with bank fraud, wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and with conspiracy to commit bank and wire fraud and identity theft. Holloway, who is one of 16 defendants from Oakland charged in a long-running investigation conducted by the…
Category: Financial Sector
UK: Credit card provider suffers breach, personal data lost
MBNA, the UK¹s largest credit card provider, has confirmed that a laptop containing the personal details of its customers has been stolen from one of its third party contractors NCO Europe Ltd earlier this month. The information is said to include personal details, however, no PIN numbers were reported to be contained in…
Nl: Rabobank loses customer data
Karin Spaink provides an English summary of some news reports that a Rabobank employee lost a USB drive containing personal and financial data on 3000 customers: An employee of the Rabobank lost his USB stick, which held the data of 3000 customers. Apart from the personal information of each of those customers, the stick contained…
WSJ reports Citi’s denial (updated)
David Enrich of the WSJ reports: Citigroup Inc. denied a report in The Wall Street Journal that federal authorities are investigating the theft of tens of millions of dollars from customer accounts by hackers, and sought to reassure clients that their funds are safe. The New York financial company sent employees in U.S. bank branches…
Press Release: Citi Says Its Systems Were Not Breached
For Immediate Release Citigroup Inc. (NYSE: C) December 22, 2009 Citi Says Its Systems Were Not Breached NEW YORK – In response to an inaccurate story today by The Wall Street Journal on Citi’s cyber security, Citi issued the following statement: Allegations reported today by The Wall Street Journal of a breach of Citi systems…
WSJ report on Citigroup hack disputed by Citigroup
Siobhan Gorman and Evan Perez of the Wall Street Journal report: The Federal Bureau of Investigation is probing a computer-security breach targeting Citigroup Inc. that resulted in a theft of tens of millions of dollars by computer hackers who appear linked to a Russian cyber gang, according to government officials…… The Citibank attack was detected…