Iain Thomson reports: Staff at Indian outsourcing biz Tata Consultancy Service uploaded a huge trove of financial institutions’ source code and internal documents to a public GitHub repository, an IT expert has claimed. Jason Coulls, CTO of food safety testing company Tellspec and a former banking software developer, said he stumbled upon the collection of…
Category: Financial Sector
HSBC reveals customer information leak
Raymond Hainey reports: HSBC Bermuda yesterday apologised after it e-mailed personal information on customers to other account holders. The e-mails contained names, e-mail addresses, countries of residence, the name of the customers’ relationship manager and HSBC customer identification numbers. Now the bank has launched an investigation to find out how the personal details — attached…
Old Mutual tightens security after customers’ data breach
Thandisizwe Mgudlwa reports: Old Mutual, South Africa’s prominent financial services company, has notified its customers of a data breach. This follows the company’s detection of an unauthorised entry to one of its systems. And this led to some personal customer information being accessed. Old Mutual has said that personal information of a relatively small group…
ZA: Old Mutual targeted in data breach
Financial services company Old Mutual has notified its customers of a data breach, after it detected unauthorised entry to one of its systems which led to some personal customer information being accessed. The company said that personal information of a relatively small group of customers in South Africa was accessed including ‘customers’ name, telephone number…
Convicted Russian Cyber Criminal Roman Seleznev faces charges in Atlanta
May 19 – Roman Seleznev, of Vladivostok, Russia, has been arraigned on federal cyber fraud charges associated with the 2008 hack and theft of banking credentials from RBS Worldpay, a payment processing company located in Atlanta, Georgia. Seleznev was indicted by a federal grand jury on December 22, 2014. “In 2008, an American credit card processor…
BMO Harris Bank sends tax documents to the wrong customers
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,…