Tashny Sukumaran reports: Hundreds of thousands of credit card details from at least six Southeast Asian countries – including Malaysia and Singapore – have been leaked online, according to India-based cybersecurity start-up Technisanct. The company said this week it had found a series of data breaches involving credit card details issued by top banks in Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines,…
Category: Financial Sector
Update and Correction
Yesterday, this site reported that the DoppelPaymer ransomware attackers had claimed to have attacked CD Bank, the online part of TBK Bank in Texas. The hackers uploaded what they claimed as proof of the hack and exfiltration. Unable to get a response from CD Bank for two days, DataBreaches.net reported the attackers’ claims, uploaded redacted…
(UPDATED) Texas bank attacked with DoppelPaymer ransomware — attackers’ report
Update 2: The attackers have confirmed that they had named the wrong bank and that the victim bank is Community Development Bank (in Minnesota). UPDATE 1: Amanda Tavackoli SVP, Communication for TBK Bank has responded with the following statement: I’m responding to your request for information regarding the DoppelPaymer claim. Reports that CD Bank has…
Inside Kenyan Hacker Group Gaining International Fame
Martin Siele reports: SilentCards, based in Nairobi, has previously been accused of orchestrating multi-million shilling heists in the financial services sector, particularly targeting banks and their Automated Teller Machines (ATMs). Singapore-based cyber-security firm, Group-IB, in its annual Hi-Tech Crimes Report identified SilentCards as one of the prominent players in the global cyber-crime landscape. Read more on Kenyans.co.ke
Idaho Central Credit Union reports two breaches
Doug Olenick reports on two recent data breaches involving Idaho Central Credit Union: The first instance cropped up on November 5, 2019 when some suspicious behavior was noted. A breach was confirmed three days later, reported BoiseDev. A data breach notice was sent on February 6, 2020 after a two-month long investigation found the issue stemmed…
ZA: Nedbank warns clients after data breach – 1.7 million clients potentially affected
BusinessTech reports: Nedbank says it has investigated a data security issue that occurred at the premises of a third-party service provider, namely Computer Facilities – a direct marketing company that issues SMS and email marketing information on behalf of Nedbank and a number of other companies. A subset of the potentially compromised data at Computer…