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,…
Category: Financial Sector
Russian Banks Leaked Personal Data From 900k Clients
Tanya Chepkova reports: Clients from the top three Russian banks entrusted their data — including phone numbers, addresses, and IDs — to the financial institutions. Now, this sensitive information is publicly available. Databases with sensitive personal information about the clients of the top Russian banks — including Alfa Bank, the country’s largest commercial bank —…
Almost 100,000 Australians’ private details exposed in attack on Westpac’s PayID
Ben Grubb and Clancy Yeates report: The private details of almost 100,000 Australian bank customers have been exposed in a cyber attack on the real-time payments platform PayID, which allows the instant transfer of money between banks using either a mobile number or email address. The attack on Westpac, which also affects customers from other…
Bank customers’ personal data sold to credit card salespeople: Kompas investigation
The Jakarta Post reports: A network of credit card salespeople and bank employees have been trading the personal information of bank customers and credit card holders with each other in an effort to make quicker sales, as reported by Kompas daily in a recent investigation. Personal information sold by the salespeople comprised a customer’s name,…
FirstBank Canceling Debit Cards Due To ‘Possible External Security’ Incident; Accounts May Have Been Compromised, The Bank Warns
FirstBank, whose presence in the U.S. Virgin Islands is second only to Banco Popular’s, is canceling debit cards as soon as Monday because of what the bank described as a “possible external security” incident that affected the bank. The debit cards are being canceled, FirstBank said in emails sent to account holders, because accounts may…
SEC Warns Advisers Over Privacy Compliance Issues
Craig A. Newman of Patterson Belknap writes: The Securities and Exchange Commission is warning investment firms to step up their game when it comes to following the agency’s privacy rules. In a Risk Alert issued by the Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (OCIE), a laundry list of compliance “deficiencies or weaknesses” were identified in…