Brian Krebs reports that hackers hijacked the domain name system records for NET Virtua, a major Brazilian ISP, on April 11. “Customers who visited any site that ran Google Adsense content were redirected to a site that tried to install and run a Java applet that in turn installed a Trojan horse program.” The attack…
Category: Financial Sector
FL: SunTrust Banks first replacing cards due to Heartland breach
WESH reports that SunTrust Banks sent out letters this week to customers informing them that their cards were being replaced due to the Heartland breach. WESH’s reporter asked what I would have asked: why are notifications first being sent now? The news station reports, “When asked why it took SunTrust so long to find out…
Largo marketing firm pays $350,000, settles complaints by Florida attorney general
Lorri Helfand of St. Petersburg Times reports: A Largo area marketing firm has agreed to pay $350,000 to settle a complaint by the Florida Attorney General’s Office that the firm obtained stolen consumer information and did not take proper steps to ensure data was acquired legitimately. Although VICI Marketing LLC agreed to the settlement filed…
IN: Personal Documents Found Strewn Along Rural Road
6News reports that thousands of documents containing personal information — including Social Security numbers and financial information — were found on a rural road. The files appear to have come from DFS Capital Funding.
Mitsubishi UFJ Securities breach worse than originally thought
As an update to the story previously reported, The Mainichi Daily News reports that: …. personal information on thousands of customers that a former middle manager sold to personal data sellers was leaked or resold to a total of 80 companies — five times more than originally announced. Retrieving the customers’ information has proved difficult,…
(Update) Laptop theft from Vavrinek, Trine, Day and Co. reportedly affected 50 banks
Add Mission Bank to what may become a whole list of banks affected when six laptops were stolen from accounting firm Vavrinek, Trine, Day and Co. on or about March 5. Borrego Bank was the first bank we learned about. Now Mission Bank, which reports that it first learned about the theft on April 1,…