John Krinjak reports: Customers of Downeast Credit Union in Belfast are being urged to check their accounts, after more than two dozen people reported hundreds of dollars were stolen from their accounts. Complaints were called in to police Saturday that their accounts were compromised & funds were missing… According to police, someone installed a skimming…
Category: Financial Sector
Suspect Convicted Three Years After Russian Fraud Scheme Compromised San Juan Unified Records
Sonseeahray Tonsall reports: Three years ago, FOX40 first reported that as many as 200 academic records were stolen from the San Juan Unified School district and discovered in an FBI raid of homes in Sacramento and Studio City. Information like student social security numbers was used to make $1 million worth of fraudulent charges on…
Brooklyn Man Pleads Guilty In Connection With International Cybercrime Scheme
Vyacheslav Khaimov pled guilty at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, New York, yesterday to the operation of an unlicensed money transmitting business in connection with his role in an international cybercrime operation. The plea was announced by Robert L. Capers, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney, Jr.,…
Hackers break into Polish banks through government regulator charged with bank security standards
Patrick O’Neill reports: Polish banks have spent the last week searching for hackers who broke into several of the country’s financial institutions in an incident that looks to be three months old, according to Polish media. The malware infection appears to have come through — of all things — compromised servers at the Polish financial regulator KNF, which…
Russian security service says hackers attacked major banks in 2016: Ifax
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…
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…