Alexander Popp reports: A Wells Fargo bank teller from Alpharetta was arrested by the Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office this week for allegedly using customer’s accounts to steal thousands of dollars. Jordan Paul Jernigan, 22, a former bank teller at the Wells Fargo on Johns Creek Parkway in south Forsyth, was taken into custody at his…
Category: Financial Sector
A DDoS gang is extorting businesses posing as Russian government hackers
File this one under “Ooh, that’s clever!” Catalin Cimpanu reports. For the past week, a group of criminals has been launching DDoS attacks against companies in the financial sector and demanding ransom payments while posing as “Fancy Bear,” the infamous hacking group associated with the Russian government, known for hacking the White House in 2014…
Russia’s Sberbank Denies New Data Leak Affected At Least One Million Data Lines
Ulmer Jamshaid reports: Russia’s Sberbank refuted in comments to Sputnik on Thursday reports that about one million rows of client data had been leaked in a new incident of an alleged breach. On Wednesday, Russian newspaper Kommersant reported that the personal data of Sberbank clients had reappeared on the black market, including their passport details,…
WI: Capital One says ‘No personal cardholder data was accessed’ in Menards fraud issue
Rhonda Foxx reports: Capital One has responded to the recent counterfeit fraud activity some Menards card holders experienced, previously reported on by Local 5. A spokesperson with Capital One says the incident was not a cybersecurity breach, but instead a counterfeit fraud effort and that no Social Security Numbers were accessed. Anyone who notices irregular…
Accused Capital One hacker had as much as 30 terabytes of stolen data, feds say
Jeff Stone reports: Investigators probing the Capital One data breach say they have between 20 and 30 terabytes of data in their possession as they prepare for trial against the alleged hacker, Paige Thompson, according to court documents obtained by CyberScoop. The government now is parsing through millions of individual files, prosecutors said, as well as…
Sberbank says sensational data theft fully solved
Andrei Skvarsky reports: The source of last week’s sensational leak of Sberbank credit card details took “hours” to find out, Russia’s biggest lender said in announcing that the theft had been fully solved. The bank said in a statement that the data, which were put on sale in the black market, had been stolen by a junior…