Emily van Velthooven reports: A Waikato woman, who chose to remain anonymous, contacted ONE News claiming she had received an email from BNZ disclosing bank information for a local business. She says she received an email on Tuesday morning listing the account details of a large business. “It had the date, bank account names, balances,…
Category: Financial Sector
Lost and Stolen Devices Account for One in Four Breaches in the Financial Services Sector: Bitglass
A press release about the financial sector that may be of interest to some readers: CAMPBELL, CA–(Marketwired – Aug 25, 2016) – Bitglass, the total data protection company, today announced the availability of its Financial Services breach report, an analysis of all breaches in the sector since 2006, with data aggregated from public databases and government mandated…
UK: Was Lloyds chief ‘affair’ exposed by disgruntled colleague?
James Burton and Vanessa Allen report: Lloyds Bank chiefs are investigating if an insider plot to undermine Antonio Horta-Osorio was behind revelations that he allegedly spent a weekend with a mistress on a business trip to Singapore. There are fears that sources within the chief executive’s inner circle leaked embarrassing claims that the married father…
The spy who hacked a thousand Indian sites
Pro-Pakistan hacker Afzal Faizal who breached the firewalls of more than a thousand Indian websites in the last two years has come under the scanner of Indian security agencies, five days after he claimed to have got access to the e-payment system of a nationalized bank. Intel officials said earlier, Faizal restricted his hacking efforts…
Major Cyber-Criminal Extradited From Czech Republic to Face Charges in Atlanta
ATLANTA – Evgeny Tarasovich Levitskyy, a/k/a Vinchenco, a/k/a Vinch, a/k/a M.U.R.D.E.R.E.R., 31, of Nikolaev, Ukraine, was arraigned today before Catherine M. Salinas, United States Magistrate Judge, on federal charges of conspiracy to commit bank fraud, bank fraud, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, and wire fraud. Levitskyy was indicted by a federal grand jury on October…
FBI: ‘IcyEagle’ hacker stole bank passwords, sold them on AlphaBay
Ryan Kruger reports: He lived in a world of anonymity. Going by the screen name “IcyEagle” he hid in the deep web. But now Aaron Glende has been exposed as an alleged hacker. The Winona, Minn. man was arrested by Atlanta-based FBI agents, charged with bank fraud and identity theft. According to a federal indictment…