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Capital One says data breach affected 100 million credit card applications

Posted on July 29, 2019 by Dissent

Devlin Barrett reports: Capital One, the Virginia-based bank with a popular credit card business, announced Monday that a hacker had accessed about 100 million credit card applications, and investigators say thousands of Social Security and bank account numbers were also taken. The FBI has arrested a Seattle area woman, Paige A. Thompson, on a charge…

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AU: National Australia Bank Says Data Breached on 13,000 Customers

Posted on July 26, 2019 by Dissent

Russell Ward reports: National Australia Bank Ltd. has begun contacting about 13,000 customers whose personal information was breached in violation of its data security policies. Data including names, dates of birth and contact details were uploaded to the servers of two data service companies without authorization, the Melbourne-based lender said Friday in a statement. Read…

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Brazilian banking users exposed by 250GB data leak

Posted on July 25, 2019 by Dissent

Angelica Mari reports: An unprotected server belonging to a Brazilian financial services provider has exposed a massive batch of data from customers of various local banks, security experts have found. The vulnerability has been detected by security researchers Data Group and the total file size of sensitive personal information available in the public domain is…

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Personal Data (Incl. SMS & Calls) of Mobile Loan App Users in China Left OPEN for ALL to See

Posted on July 17, 2019 by Dissent

Jim Wilson of Safety Detectives reports on some of their team’s recent findings: Safety Detectives’ research team has recently discovered a sizeable data leak (over 899gb and growing by the day) of a China-based server, which has now been closed. We are unable to confirm the company behind the leak, but according to the data,…

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Ca: Desjardins expands protection plan for members after data breach

Posted on July 16, 2019 by Dissent

Frédéric Tomesco reports: Mouvement Desjardins is expanding a protection plan for personal and business customers in the wake of the data leak that compromised the personal information of more than 2.9 million members. All current and future Desjardins caisse members are now automatically and permanently protected against identity theft at no cost, chief executive officer…

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Former Desjardins president falls victim to identity theft after data breach

Posted on July 13, 2019 by Dissent

Colin Harris reports: As millions of Quebecers worry about a data breach at Desjardins Group, the former president of Canada’s biggest federation of credit unions says that he himself is a victim of identify theft. Claude Béland, president of Desjardins from 1987 to 2000, told Radio-Canada that three companies wrote to him saying that he…

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