Luke Irwin reports: UniCredit, Italy’s largest bank, has admitted that it suffered two data breaches in the past year, affecting 400,000 customers in total. In a statement, the bank confirmed that no passwords were stolen in the attacks, which occurred between September and October of 2016 and then June and July this year. UniCredit did…
Category: Financial Sector
British Malware Researcher Charged with Allegedly Creating the Kronos Banking Trojan
So yesterday afternoon, Twitter exploded as word spread that Marcus Hutchins, aka @MalwareTechBlog, had been arrested as he attempted to board a flight back to the U.K. Hutchins, who became an “accidental hero” in stopping the spread of WannaCry, was accused of creating and conspiring with another unnamed defendant in the matter of the Kronos…
Spain allows extradition of alleged Russian hacker to US
AFP reports: Spain’s top-level National Court has okayed extraditing Stanislav Lisov, an alleged Russian hacker accused of creating an online banking malware, to the United States, it said Tuesday. Lisov was detained in January in Barcelona’s El Prat airport when he was about to board a plane. He was subsequently jailed pending a decision on whether…
UniCredit Says 400,000 Accounts Were Hacked, Exposing Data
Sonia Sirletti and Edward Robinson report: UniCredit SpA said hackers accessed about 400,000 client bank accounts in Italy, taking biographical and loan data in one of the biggest breaches in Europe to date. The breaches occurred in September and October of 2016 and June to July of this year, the bank said on Wednesday in…
Wells Fargo Accidentally Releases Trove of Data on Wealthy Clients
Serge F. Kovaleski and Stacy Cowley report that external counsel for Wells Fargo Advisors appear to have over-responded to a discovery request by inadvertently including financial details on 50,000 Wells Fargo high-wealth clients: When a lawyer for Gary Sinderbrand, a former Wells Fargo employee, subpoenaed the bank as part of a defamation lawsuit against a…
Ukrainian “Casher” Sentenced for Role in Worldpay Hacking Scheme
Evgeny Tarasovich Levitskyy, a/k/a Vinchenco, a/k/a Vinch, a/k/a M.U.R.D.E.R.E.R, was sentenced on Thursday to 46 months in federal prison for conspiracy to commit bank fraud for his role as a “casher” (one who withdraws cash using stolen bank account information) in the 2008 hack of RBS WorldPay. “The 2008 hack of RBS WorldPay was one…