Reuters reports: Dutch bank DSB dismissed calls from a mortgage foundation on Thursday for customers to withdraw their money and denied there was a run on the bank. “There are no mass numbers of people taking away their money,” DSB spokesman Klaas Wilting said following remarks by Pieter Lakeman, chairman of the Stichting Hypotheekleed, in…
Category: Hack
Hackers Breach Payroll Giant, Target Customers
Brian Krebs reports: Hackers last week apparently used stolen account information from a New Jersey company that provides online payroll services to target the firm’s customers in a scheme to steal passwords and other information. […] Unlike typical so-called “phishing” scams — which are sent indiscriminately to large numbers of people in the hopes that…
UNC security breach less severe than feared
As an update to a previously reported breach: A hacker who wormed into a UNC Chapel Hill computer server may not have gotten access to as much information as officials originally feared. UNC School of Medicine officials said last week that a security breach had left data related to as many as 236,000 women enrolled…
Second blow for Bolton as company is banned
In a follow-up to a case where a data breach has had massive consequences for the breached entity, Mark Hawthorne reports that Nicholas Bolton lost another round in court in Australia when the court affirmed a decision by the Australian Domain Name Administrator (AuDA) banning Bottle Domains from selling or administering domain names: In January…
Hacker hits UNC-Chapel Hill study data
From McClatchy Newspapers: A hacker has infiltrated a computer server housing the personal data of 236,000 women enrolled in a UNC-Chapel Hill research study. Among the information exposed: the Social Security numbers of 163,000 study participants. Though the intrusion was detected in late July, computer forensics experts say it may have happened two years ago,…
Commerce Bank replaces cards compromised in Heartland breach
Dan Margolies reports that Commerce Bank in Kansas City is first replacing credit cards after a recent small wave of fraudulent activity was reported. The compromised cards were involved in the Heartland Payment Systems breach disclosed in January 2009. “We are now beginning to reissue some cards that were part of the block of cards…