Ry Crozier reports: Banks have started warning customers of a fresh data breach involving PayID records that was reported to new payments platform overseer NPP Australia late Friday. NPP Australia said that an undisclosed number of PayID records “and associated data in the Addressing Service were exposed by a vulnerability in one of the financial…
Category: Financial Sector
European Central Bank Says One of Its Websites Was Hacked, Data Possibly Captured
Carolynn Look and Nicholas Comfort report: The European Central Bank said one of its websites was hacked by unauthorized people who may have stolen private information including contact data. According to an emailed statement, hackers installed malware onto an external server that hosts the Banks’ Integrated Reporting Dictionary, or BIRD, to aid phishing activities. It’s…
Capital One hacker took data from more than 30 companies, new court docs reveal
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Paige A. Thompson, the hacker accused of breaching US bank Capital One, is also believed to have stolen data from more than 30 other companies, US prosecutors said in new court documents filed today and obtained by ZDNet. “The government’s investigation over the last two weeks has revealed that Thompson’s theft of…
At least 480,000 Brit bank customers told to change pins Monzo discovers data storage error
Brinkwire reports: ONLINE banking company Monzo has advised 450,000 of its British customers to change their pins following a major security breach. Almost half a million customers affected by the security breach have been told to change their pins after sensitive information was exposed to unauthorised staff. Read more on Brinkwire. I think Monzo might…
Monzo security breach: digital bank is asking some customers to change their pin
Jake Tucker reports: British banking start-up Monzo has reached out to around half a million customers after a glitch revealed plain text PIN details to engineers. Those contacted have been asked to change their card PIN after the security hiccup, but it’s a substantial breach of security and bad news for the digital bank, which…
U.S. indicts three over alleged phishing campaign targeting universities, businesses
Bradley Barth reports: The Department of Justice has indicted two Americans and a Nigerian on multiple charges for their alleged roles in a phishing scheme that targeted college employees, banks and other businesses from May 2013 through June 2014. Filed on Tuesday in U.S. District Court in New Mexico, the indictment identifies the defendants as…