Ju-min Park of Reuters reports: South Korea’s financial watchdog launched an investigation on Monday into the leak of personal information from South Korea’s Hyundai Capital, the consumer finance unit of Hyundai Motor Group, a Financial Supervisory Service official said. Hyundai Capital said personal information on about 420,000 of its 1.8 million customers was leaked when…
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Ca: Seven arrested at casino tied to credit card fraud
Ontario Provincial police charged seven men with credit and debit card fraud at the Fallsview Casino. Police said the suspects obtained significant amounts of cash from hundreds of compromised bank accounts over a two-hour period Thursday, using several ATM machines within the casino, according to the Associated Press. With the arrests, casino enforcement unit officers…
Ca: Haldimand man facing 138 credit card fraud charges
Canadian Press reports: A 22-year-old man is facing nearly 140 charges after a credit card fraud at a New Credit First Nation gas station in Hagersville. Police say between Dec. 16 and Dec. 28, a credit card fraud was discovered at the New Credit Variety and Gas Bar. In total, 41 people had been defrauded…
UK: Sensitive council data put online by mistake
Once again, a breach involving what appears to be over-transparency in government: Devon County Council is currently examining dozens of documents which had been made available on its website to assess the amount of damage done. The authority took the action after the Echo made it aware that it had published financial details relating to…
UK police arrest three men over ‘SpyEye’ malware
Jeremy Kirk reports: U.K. police arrested three men late last week in connection with using the SpyEye malware program to steal online banking details. […] The investigation began in January and revolved around the group’s use of a uniquely modified variation of the SpyEye malware, which harvests personal banking details and sends the credentials to…
Ie: Firm possibly lost 50,000 clients’ data
Una McCaffrey reports: Phoenix Ireland, a life and pensions company, has admitted it may have lost the personal details of about 50,000 current and former customers. The possible data loss also affects a small number of people who contacted the company, formerly Scottish Provident Ireland, but did not take out a policy. In letters sent…