Correen Zell reports: A number of BMO Harris Bank customers received tax documents in the mail this week with other people’s personal information, and they’re still waiting for answers. When Don Liebenthal brought in the mail Thursday, a tax document from BMO Harris Bank addressed to his wife caught his eye. Liebenthal saw a stranger’s name,…
Category: Financial Sector
Swiss won’t help France investigate tax case using stolen data
John Revill reports: Switzerland’s highest court has rejected a French request for help in investigating a married couple for tax offences, ruling that data stolen from HSBC’s Geneva private bank was inadmissible. The ruling comes amid the latest scandal to hit Credit Suisse after an anonymous tipster alerted Dutch authorities to thousands of suspect accounts…
Scottrade Bank data breach exposes 20,000 customer records
Steve Ragan reports: Scottrade Bank, a subsidiary of Scottrade Financial Services, Inc., recently secured a MSSQL database containing sensitive information on at least 20,000 customers that was inadvertently left exposed to the public. The database was discovered by MacKeeper researcher Chris Vickery on March 31, when he was searching for random phrases on the domain…
Hackers Are Emptying ATMs With a Single Drilled Hole and $15 Worth of Gear
Andy Greenberg reports: NOT SO LONG ago, enterprising thieves who wanted to steal the entire contents of an ATM had to blow it up. Today, a more discreet sort of cash-machine burglar can walk away with an ATM’s stash and leave behind only a tell-tale three-inch hole in its front panel. Researchers from the Russian…
Financial firm’s documents found in Bangor alley
Allan Preston reports: Hundreds of discarded financial documents have been found scattered in a Bangor alleyway. The resident who discovered them said he suspected many contained personal information. However, the finance company that owns the documents, NIIB, said no customer information was in the papers, and that it was investigating the issue. Read more on…
No bail for 3 Romanians in ATM hack
Mars W. Mosqueda Jr. reports: The three Romanians arrested for alleged involvement in the skimming of automated teller machines (ATM) will not be allowed to post bail. The Cebu City Prosecutor’s Office indicted Costel Ion, Ionut Alexandru Mitrache and Razvan Aurelian Stancu for violations of the Access Devices Regulation Act of 1998 (RA 8484) and…