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UK: Hole in banking system allowed ‘shocking’ scam

Posted on December 23, 2009 by Dissent

The UK Press Association reports: A judge condemned a “shocking hole” in the banking system as he jailed two London fraudsters who profited from an internet scam thought to involve 180,000 British credit cards. Gboyega Akinbola, 36, and Oyetunde Oyedeji, 31, went on a lavish spending spree worth an estimated £60,000 after ordering more than…

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UK: Credit card provider suffers breach, personal data lost

Posted on December 23, 2009 by Dissent

MBNA, the UK¹s largest credit card provider, has confirmed that a laptop containing the personal details of its customers has been stolen from one of its third party contractors ­ NCO Europe Ltd ­ earlier this month. The information is said to include personal details, however, no PIN numbers were reported to be contained in…

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Nl: Rabobank loses customer data

Posted on December 23, 2009 by Dissent

Karin Spaink provides an English summary of some news reports that a Rabobank employee lost a USB drive containing personal and financial data on 3000 customers: An employee of the Rabobank lost his USB stick, which held the data of 3000 customers. Apart from the personal information of each of those customers, the stick contained…

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AU: Two charged over $4m Perth McDonald’s EFTPOS scam

Posted on December 22, 2009 by Dissent

Glenn Cordingley reports: Two people have been arrested over an EFTPOS skimming scam in which $4 million was stolen from the accounts of McDonald’s customers in WA [Western Australia]. […] The first man, a 36-year-old British citizen who lives in United Kingdom, was arrested on Monday and appeared in the Parramatta Local Court yesterday where…

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UPDATE: France agrees to hand back ‘stolen’ Swiss bank data

Posted on December 21, 2009 by Dissent

From the Agence France-Presse: France said Monday it would agree to a Swiss request to hand back data taken from a HSBC bank branch in Geneva that is at the centre of a row between the two countries. France said Monday it would agree to a Swiss request to hand back data taken from a…

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(follow-up) HSBC denies ignored pvt bank whistleblower warning

Posted on December 21, 2009 by Dissent

Reuters reports on another aspect of HSBC-French tax mess: the ex-employee’s allegations that he tried to warn the private bank: IT specialist Herve Falciani, an ex-HSBC employee accused of handing data taken in 2006 and 2007 to the French, told Le Figaro he had passed the information to French tax authorities after it was ignored…

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