Phan Anh reports: A Bulgarian man was sentenced to seven months and 15 days in jail on Wednesday for stealing and storing bank account information in HCMC. Stamov Ruslan Todorvo, 37, entered Vietnam last October and stayed in Ho Chi Minh City’s District 7. He frequented several ATMs of different banks to install a device…
Category: Financial Sector
Bank of America reveals data breach in PPP application process
Caroline Hudson reports: Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC) has revealed a possible data breach on business clients’ information for the Paycheck Protection Program. The breach occurred on April 22, as BofA uploaded PPP applications onto the U.S. Small Business Administration’s test platform, according to a filing with the California Attorney General’s Office. The limited-access…
Capital One Must Turn Over Mandiant’s Forensics Report
Jeremy Kirk reports: Capital One has been ordered by a federal judge to turn over the results of a digital forensics investigation into its 2019 data breach, which has been sought by plaintiffs in a class-action lawsuit. The report could provide further insight into what went wrong in one of the most significant breaches of…
MA: New York City Man Charged with Hacking, Credit Card Trafficking, and Money Laundering Conspiracies
A New York City man was charged Tuesday with conspiracies to engage in computer hacking, trafficking in stolen payment card numbers, and money laundering. Vitalii Antonenko, 28, was indicted on one count of conspiracy to gain unauthorized access to computer networks and to traffic in unauthorized access devices, and one count of money laundering conspiracy….
Another Alleged FIN7 Cybercrime Gang Member Arrested
Ishita Chigilli Palli reports: The FBI has arrested another alleged member of the FIN7 cybercrime gang, which has been stealing millions of payment cards and other financial data since at least September 2015, according to federal court documents. Ukrainian national Denys Iarmak was extradited from Thailand and arrested in Seattle on Friday, according to documents unsealed…
Leak at Desjardins: a mortgage broker buys a list of 5000 names
The following is a translation provided by Google: A Quebec mortgage broker paid $ 3,000 in cash to obtain a list of personal and confidential data belonging to approximately 5,000 people. This is what emerged from a hearing by the disciplinary committee of the Organisme d’autoréglementation du courtage immobilier du Québec (OACIQ) during which Marc-Olivier…