Jeff Blumenthal reports: A former TD Bank employee was indicted Monday for allegedly stealing customer information and selling it to co-conspirators, who in turn used the data to run an identity theft scheme. Michael Tuffour<, 27, of Philadelphia was charged with one count of bank fraud and three counts of aggravated identity theft. Read more on Philadelphia…
Category: Financial Sector
Israelis in JPMorgan Hack Case to be Extradited
There’s an update to a case previously reported on this site. AFP reports: Israeli authorities have approved the extradition to the United States of two nationals indicted over a cyber attack against JPMorgan Chase, one of the largest computer frauds in history. Gery Shalon, 32, and 41-year-old Ziv Orenstein were arrested in Israel last July and will…
InvestBank UAE hack: Database containing credit card details and passport scans leaks online
The Investbank hack and data dump can’t seem to say out of the news. Jason Murdock reports: A 10GB file has been released online that purports to hold sensitive financial data compromised from the InvestBank of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Upon initial analysis, the ZIP file contains tens of thousands of credit card numbers, names and…
(CORRECTED) QNB hackers to leak more data of another big bank soon – Kaspersky
It sounds like big trouble is brewing for a bank that has yet to be named. Naushad K. Cherrayil reports: The hackers who attacked Qatar National Bank last week have attacked a second bank and are set to leak more data, a security expert told Gulf News on Monday. “They have announced that they are going to…
Qatar National Bank confirms limited hack, reassures customers
I’ve been keeping an eye out to see if the Qatar National Bank would confirm claims that they had been hacked. Now they have. From their web site: Doha, 1 May, 2016 – QNB Group’s Risk Team monitored abnormal activity in our system environment, this was immediately communicated to relevant authorities. We also took immediate steps…
Verifier web site allows you to check to see if your data were in the QNB data dump
The concept of web sites that allow you to check to see if your data were caught up in a hack and data dump really took off after Troy Hunt opened HaveIBeenPwned.com. Now there’s a site that allows you to check to see if your data were caught up in the Qatar National Bank (QNB) data…