Thanks to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office for posting breach notices online: Student Loan Xpress, Inc. reported (pdf) that the service provider for their student loans, American Education Services, inadvertently transmitted personal information on student loans to another lender that AES also has contracts with. The information may have included names, addresses, Social Security…
Category: Financial Sector
Tantalizing confirmation of another big breach
There’s been a lot of speculation recently about another big breach, unrelated to the Heartland Payment Systems breach. Now I see this on Banker’s Bank of Kansas, N.A web site: 02/17/09 – Two large data compromises affecting credit and debit cards were announced the weeks of 1/21/09 and 2/09/09. BBOK BankCard actively monitors all alerts…
Valley National Bank replaces cards after Heartland
When payment processor Heartland Payment Systems announced it had been breached on January 20, management at Valley National Bank in New Jersey went into action. By January 26, they had notified the New York State Attorney General’s Office that they were replacing 20,013 cards as a result of the breach and had kicked into high…
GA: Federal grand jury indicts Bulgarians on bank card skimming
Federal indictments were handed down against Nikolay Nikolov, 23, and Yordan Kavaklov, 29, both of Bulgaria, on multiple felony charges of conspiring to steal the bank card numbers and passwords of dozens of individuals through the use of a skimming device the defendants allegedly connected to ATM’s in the metro Atlanta area. […] According to…
First arrests made in Heartland data breach case
Chuck Miller reports: Three men have been arrested in Tallahasee, Fla., in connection with the Heartland Payment Systems data breach, authorities said. The men, Tony Acreus, Jeremy Frazier and Timothy Johns, each were charged with multiple counts of credit card fraud, police said. The arrests were part of a larger investigation into the breach, […]…
Heartland Data Breach: Maine Credit Union Says Reported Fraud has Tripled
Some interesting insights into the impact of the Heartland breach on a small credit union are provided in a BankInfoSecurity story: Last week [HealthFirst Credit Union of Waterville] in Maine thought it had seen the last of the Heartland Payment Systems data breach that had affected 261 of its members’ credit cards. Officials now report…