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…
Readers question whether Epsilon breach was really names and email addresses only (updated to include response from Epsilon)
From comments under another blog entry, it seems clear that a lot of people are not believing Epsilon’s assurance that the breach involved names and email addresses only. I received the following email, which I am reproducing except for redacting the name of the sender and the name of the Epsilon employee and their phone…
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…