A few weeks ago, Clearstar Financial Credit Union reported that a few dozen of their members had detected fraudulent charges on their cards that began on March 25. Given that lists of possibly compromised card numbers from the Heartland Payment Systems breach had been sent out in January and thereafter, some of us wondered whether…
Category: Financial Sector
ME: No data breach found on Franklin Savings Bank Web site
Betty Jespersen of The Morning Sentinel reports: Franklin Savings Bank on Friday assured customers who have not been able to reach the bank’s Web page that their information is safe. […] The Web page is accessed with the addresses www.FranklineBranch.com, www.fsbme.com and www.WesternMountainFinancial.com. It has links that take customers to the bank’s FranklineBranch online-banking program,…
Auditing firm in multiple-bank breach identified
This story updates the breach first reported yesterday. J. Harry Jones of the Union-Tribune confirms that laptop computers stolen from an accounting firm may contain personal financial information of many more banks and people than first revealed. According to the Orange County Sheriff’s Department, the laptops were stolen between 4:30 p.m. March 4 and 7…
CA: Laptops with financial records stolen from accounting firm
J. Harry Jones of The Union-Tribune reports that seven laptops containing personal and account information on Borrego Springs Bank customers were stolen from an unnamed auditing firm on March 5. The firm did not notify the bank fo the theft until March 18, however. Bank customers received letters this week about the incident. The letter…
Prosecuting the Mitsubishi UFJ case: what’s the crime?
The Yomiuri Shimbun has an article on the Mitsubishi UFJ breach reported earlier this week that suggests difficulties the prosecutors may face. In this case, a (now-former) employee allegedly used a co-worker’s credentials to access a database to which he already had authorized access. Using the co-worker’s credentials, he accessed and copied data on 1,486,651…
Bits ‘n Pieces
In the justice system: Andrew Paparella Jr. was arrested and charged with stealing credit card numbers belonging to patrons of his restaurant, the Citrus café. More. Gene Anthony Franklin Jr. faces up to 73 years in prison for stealing the identities of more than one dozen people by posing as a real estate investor to…