Santander Bank seems to be having problems with ATM incidents at some of their Massachusetts branches. In each of three reported cases, the criminals attached a magnetic stripe reader on the ATM vestibule door of the branch and removed it within a day or two. Customers’ names, card numbers, expiration dates, security codes, and PIN numbers were obtained…
Category: U.S.
Alfa Specialty Insurance and Alfa Vision Insurance notify customers of personal information leak
Alfa Specialty Insurance Corp. and Alfa Vision Insurance Corp. are notifying some customers that personal information related to auto insurance policies was inadvertently exposed on the Internet. The exposure was discovered on May 4th. The source of the exposure was one of their servers in their Brentwood, Tennessee location. Exposed information included customers’ names, addresses, dates…
Indiana radio station hacked by Anonymous
WIVB reports: An Indiana radio station was apparently hacked Sunday evening. If you were tuning in to WXXR 97.3 in Terre Haute, you might have heard a message from “Anonymous.” “Anonymous” is an activist group that hacks websites, to express their views and messages. Around 7:30 p.m. Sunday, the FM signal was intercepted and a…
Accused Hacker Kingpin in Plea Talks With U.S. Over ATM Scam
Christie Smythe reports: A Turkish man accused by the U.S. of masterminding a scheme that siphoned tens of millions of dollars from automated teller machines around the globe is negotiating a plea deal, prosecutors said. Ercan Findikoglu, known as the “Predator,” has been held in a federal jail in New York since he was extradited…
PA: ‘Numerous’ Cases Of Identity Theft And Fraud Hits Phoenixville
Justin Heinze reports: There have been “numerous” cases of identity theft and credit card fraud in Phoenixville recently, and most of the victims have been patrons of Nudy’s Cafe, according to the Phoenixville Police Department. If you have visited any of the Nudy’s Cafe locations since March and paid with a credit card, police are…
Misdirected email faulted in data breach affecting hundreds of UPMC insurance customers
Confirmation from Adam Smeltz of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that the UPMC Health Plan breach reported yesterday involved e-mail: UPMC Health Plan blamed a misfired email message for the release of personal information about 722 members. The email meant for a physician’s office in Lawrence County was sent instead to an incorrect address, revealing patient names, insurance…