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…
Category: Financial Sector
Brazilian banking users exposed by 250GB data leak
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…
Personal Data (Incl. SMS & Calls) of Mobile Loan App Users in China Left OPEN for ALL to See
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,…
Ca: Desjardins expands protection plan for members after data breach
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…
Former Desjardins president falls victim to identity theft after data breach
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…
Quebec, federal Privacy Commissioners investigate Desjardins breach
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…