Andrey Ostroukh reports: Russia’s major commercial banks came under cyber attacks in November last year, the country’s Federal Security Service said on Friday, Interfax news agency reported. Lenders such as Sberbank, Rosbank, Alfa Bank, Bank of Moscow, as well as the Moscow Exchange and other institutions were the targets of “a massive attack” from hackers…
Category: Financial Sector
Ex-Goldman Sachs computer programmer busted again for stealing code
Barbara Ross reports: A computer programmer who copied Goldman Sachs’ confidential recipe for making money in high frequency trades is guilty — again — of theft, an appellate court ruled Tuesday. The judges said a lower court judge was wrong to toss Sergey Aleynikov‘s conviction in 2015 of unlawfully using secret scientific material, a low level…
NY: Bank call center employee used caller information to steal from accounts
Melinda Miller reports: A former call center employee admitted in Erie County Court that he stole more than $15,000 from the accounts of nine bank customers using personal information stolen through his job. Adrian Jones, 27, of Buffalo pleaded guilty before Judge Michael A. Pietruszka to two counts of grand larceny in the third degree,…
Mortgage loan processor stole dozens of identities
Francesca Gattuso reports: A northwest suburban mortgage loan processor stole “dozens” of victims identities to open bank accounts, credit cards and loans, authorities said. Karolina M. Klambatseas, 34, worked for various mortgage companies while committing the theft dating back to May 2015, Wheaton police announced Monday. Read more on Chicago Sun-Times.
Hackers attempted to blackmail Brazil broker XP over client data breach -Valor
Tatiana Bautzer of Reuters reports: Hackers who stole data from 29,000 clients of XP Investimentos SA allegedly tried to get the Brazilian independent securities firm to pay 22.5 million reais ($7.1 million) to keep the security breach secret, the online service of newspaper Valor Econômico said on Monday. According to Valor, which reviewed documents related…
Hacker Group Claims Responsibility for Lloyds Bank Outages, Ransom Demand
Catalin Cimpanu reports: A group of at least two hackers has tried to extort a ransom payment from the Lloyds Banking Group according to a copy of an email the hackers sent to a high-ranking executive. The extortion attempt took place on January 11, the first day some Lloyds Bank customers experienced short-lived problems with accessing their…