From the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, an announcement concerning the alleged rogue insider breach at a financial institution that impacted the personal information of more than 2.9 million of its members, including 2.7 million individual members and 173,000 business members. On July 8, the Commissioner announced: The Commission d’accès à l’information du…
Category: Financial Sector
Philadelphia Federal Credit Union confirms security breach
The Philadelphia Federal Credit Union released this statement to ABC News: “On July 8, PFCU officials discovered potentially fraudulent activity involving a small percentage of members’ debit cards. While this incident is not the result of an internal PFCU breach, PFCU’s security and loss prevention specialists are working diligently to determine the cause of the…
‘Silence’ hackers hit banks in Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, and Kyrgyzstan
Catalin Cimpanu reports: A group of hackers specialized in attacking banks has hit again, and this time they’ve breached four targets in Asia, respectively in Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, and Kyrgyzstan, security researchers from Group-IB have told ZDNet. The only incident that is currently public is one impacting Dutch Bangla Bank Limited, a bank in…
AWS S3 server leaks data from Fortune 100 companies: Ford, Netflix, TD Bank
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Attunity, an Israeli IT firm that provides data management, warehousing, and replication services for the world’s biggest companies, has exposed some of its customers’ data after it left three Amazon S3 buckets exposed on the internet without a password. The leaky AWS S3 buckets contained information on Attunity’s own operations, but also…
Anonymous hacker exposed after dropping USB drive while throwing Molotov cocktail
Catalin Cimpanu reports: In a bizarre investigation, Belgium police have identified a member of the Anonymous Belgium hacker collective while investigating an arson case at a local bank. The perpetrator, a 35-year-old man from the Belgian city of Roeselare, was initially arrested after throwing a Molotov cocktail at the Crelan Bank office in Rumbeke, a…
Desjardins: Rogue employee caused data breach for 2.9 million members
Frédéric Tomesco reports: More than 2.9 million Desjardins Group members have had their personal information compromised in a data breach targeting Canada’s biggest credit union. The incident stems from “unauthorized and illegal use of internal data” by an employee who has since been fired, Desjardins said Thursday in a statement. Computer systems were not breached,…