Malaysia’s CIMB Group Holdings said some magnetic tapes containing back-up customer data were lost during routine operations, but added that there has been no evidence that any data has been compromised, Reuters reported on Monday. Malaysia’s second biggest lender said the tapes do not contain any authentication data such as pin numbers, passwords or credit…
Category: Financial Sector
Reserve Bank of India Fines Yes Bank $1 Million for Tardy Breach Reporting
Suparna Goswami reports: The Reserve Bank of India has slapped a $1 million (U.S.) penalty on Yes Bank for failing to promptly notify the central bank of a 2016 data breach of its ATM network. This is reportedly the first such penalty imposed on a bank. OK, this was a breach of the Yes Bank…
PH: Privacy watchdog ‘monitoring 24/7’ COL Financial’s data hack probe
Five days to issue a comprehensive report? Imagine if that happened here…. Daxim L. Lucas reports: The government’s privacy watchdog said on Sunday that it was closely monitoring the “possible personal data breach” on the country’s largest online stock brokerage firm, which has almost a quarter of a million clients trading shares its internet-based trading…
South Korean Gov’t Investigating Bithumb Security Breach, World’s Largest Cryptocurrency Exchange
Joseph Young reports: Local news publications and leading media outlets in South Korea have reported that Bithumb, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, suffered a security breach that affected 30,000 users on the trading platform. Seoul Central Prosecutor’s Office for Advanced Criminal Investigation has announced that it had taken over the case and…
A forum on DarkNet is selling data stolen from over 6,000 Indian businesses including ISPs: QuickHeal
IANS reports: Global IT security firm Quick Heal‘s Enterprise Security brand Seqrite has discovered an advertisement on DarkNet forum that claims to have access to data of over 6,000 Indian businesses that include Internet Service Providers (ISPs), some of the key government organisations, banks and enterprises. Read more on FirstPost.
IE: AIB loses 550 bank customers’ confidential information
BreakingNews.ie. reports: RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta has reported this morning that confidential information relating to 550 customers of AIB in Co Galway was mislaid at the end of August. Customers of AIB in Salthill and An Spidéal received letters from the bank this week informing them of the incident. The information contained in the documents…