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…
Category: Financial Sector
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…
15 computers with ‘sensitive information’ stolen from Chief Justice Mogoeng’s office
Nic Andersen reports: In our country at the moment, you blink once and there is another crisis. This evening, shocking details have emerged of a very suspicious break-in at the offices of Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng. In the early hours of Saturday morning 15 computers were stolen, in South Africa that may sound normal to you, wait…
Russian Hacker “Kolypto” Who Worked on Citadel Trojan Extradited to the US
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Yesterday, a Russian national accused of helping develop the Citadel banking trojan was arraigned in front of a US judge for the first time, after being extradited from Fredrikstad, Norway. The man’s name is Mark Vartanyan, 28, known online as Kolypto. According to US authorities, Vartanyan allegedly developed, improved and maintained the…