TASS reports: An attack against the Russian banking system made by hackers last year compromised Visa and MasterCard international payment systems, representative of the Cybercrime Department of the Russian Interior Ministry Alexander Vurasko said on Thursday. “The specificity of that [hackers’] ring was that they managed to compromise the largest international payment systems, including Visa…
Category: Financial Sector
Ca: RBC sends wrong RRSP info, including names and SINs, to ‘approximately 500’ customers
Pete Evans reports: The biggest bank in Canada says it accidentally mailed hundreds of incorrect RRSP receipts to the wrong customers, exposing the names, addresses and social insurance numbers of those clients in the process. Royal Bank of Canada says that as a result of what it called a “printing error” a number of its…
Bank Yerushalayim: Customer Money Safe, Despite Hack
Dror Halavi reports: Hackers broke into the servers of Bank Yerushalayim over the weekend, entering a customer database, where they accessed data on thousands of customers. The bank took the database offline after the breach was discovered, it reported in a notice sent to customers on Motzoei Shabbos. The bank said that the database included…
KR: Credit card firms ordered to compensate consumers for data leak
The Korea Herald reports the latest development in a massive data leak first reported at the end of 2013: A local court on Friday ordered three credit card-related companies, hit by a massive data leak in 2014, to give 100,000 won ($83) to each victim, a ruling that could set a precedent for other similar…
Alleged Scotiabank privacy breach leads to class action
The Chronicle Herald reports: An Antigonish woman has filed a proposed class action against the Bank of Nova Scotia, alleging an employee illegally accessed her personal information and then distributed it to third parties. Linda Matthews Mont filed the action in Nova Scotia Supreme Court in September 2014, alleging that at some point before March…
Cn: Viruses and malware hit over 25m users
Ding Yining reports: Over 25 million Chinese mobile phone users were affected by online payment-related spyware and there were about 326,000 kinds of newly created mobile payment malware last year, an industry report showed. Last year, more than 16.7 million smartphone-related viruses or malicious software emerged, according to the online payment “black industry” report released by…