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Category: Financial Sector

California Dept. of Real Estate seeks to yank Seaview Financial’s license

Posted on March 17, 2009 by Dissent

Jeff Overley of the Orange County Register reports that the state Department of Real Estate wants to suspend or revoke the license of mortgage broker Seaview Financial for dumping 24 cartons containing confidential and detailed financial records on 350 customers in an elementary school’s bins (see photos). The owner, Paul Henry Reed, had denied wrongdoing…

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Irish bank teller commits insider theft of customer data, gets suspended sentence

Posted on March 17, 2009 by Dissent

Maura Byrne reports on Independent.ie that a Bank of Ireland cashier who used a skimmer to steal data from 87 customer accounts that was used to steal almost €320,000 being taken from their accounts — has been given a suspended sentence. The theft occurred between October 2006 and February 2007. Darren McComiskey reportedly passed the…

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Stolen-data trove offers look inside a botnet

Posted on March 15, 2009 by Dissent

Jordan Robertson of the Associated Press reports on what researchers from Prevx found on a Ukrainian web site used as to store data from 160,000 infected computers. What they found included data from a Georgia bank that exposed customer details and credentials for the bank’s wire-transfer system, and data from two states’ systems. Read more.

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Bits ‘n Pieces

Posted on March 14, 2009 by Dissent

In the justice system: An employee of Washington Mutual Bank in Joliet was arrested and charged with organizing a financial crimes enterprise, conspiring to commit financial crimes, participating in a continuing financial crimes enterprise, theft and four counts of financial identity theft. More. Washoe County sheriff’s deputies have arrested David Michael Baker in Reno on…

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RBS WorldPay statement

Posted on March 13, 2009 by Dissent

In response to my request for a statement, a spokesperson for RBS WorldPay sent this statement: RBS WorldPay received its Payment Card Industry (PCI) Report on Compliance (ROC) in June of 2008 by a qualified assessor. Visa has asked us to obtain a new certification of PCI compliance because of the recent data-security compromise. Visa…

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Visa puts Heartland on probation over breach — but what about RBS WorldPay?

Posted on March 13, 2009 by Dissent

Anthony M. Freed of Information Security Resources reports that Visa has put Heartland Payment Systems on probation. As of February 11, 2009 Visa’s Global List of PCI DSS Validated Service Providers had asterisked Heartland Payment Systems as being under review. Heartland is not on the March 12th list. The following quotes from Visa’s announcement are…

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