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Back End News reports: The Philippines’ National Privacy Commission (NPC) has ordered Familyhan Credit Corp. to immediately stop processing the personal data of more than 6,000 borrowers following an investigation of complaints that the online lender h… Continue reading Ph: NPC orders lender Familyhan to take down customer database following complaints
Arnab Shome reports: TF Global Markets (Aust) Limited, the Australian unit of forex broker ThinkMarkets, has filed a lawsuit against its former employee James Sorenson over some serious allegations of data theft and distributing them to its rival. The … Continue reading ThinkMarkets Sues Former Employee for Data Theft
A Proposed Rule by the Comptroller of the Currency, the Federal Reserve System, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation on 01/12/2021 This document has a comment period that ends in 90 days. (04/12/2021). You can submit a formal comment on it. S… Continue reading Computer-Security Incident Notification Requirements for Banking Organizations and Their Bank Service Providers
AP reports: New Zealand’s central bank said Sunday that one of its data systems has been breached by an unidentified hacker who potentially accessed commercially and personally sensitive information. A third party file sharing service used by the… Continue reading New Zealand central bank: unnamed third-party file-sharing service was hacked
Audrey Strauss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that ANDREI TYURIN, a/k/a “Andrei Tiurin,” was sentenced in Manhattan federal court to 144 months in prison for computer intrusion, wire fraud, ban… Continue reading Russian Hacker Sentenced To 12 Years In Prison For Involvement In Massive Network Intrusions At U.S. Financial Institutions, Brokerage Firms, A Major News Publication, And Other Companies
Helpful note: 10 crore = 100 million. Economic Times Tech reports: Independent cybersecurity researcher Rajshekhar Rajaharia claimed on Sunday that data of nearly 10 crore credit and debit card holders in the country is being sold for an undisclosed am… Continue reading In: 10 crore Indians’ card data selling on Dark Web: Researcher
BusinessTech staff report: Minister of Social Development Lindiwe Zulu says that government is in talks with stakeholders to replace South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) cards after a security breach, first reported in 2019. Responding to a wri… Continue reading ZA: Government to replace Sassa grant cards after security breach
Tzvi Joffre reports: A hacker group called Spiderz claimed that it has succeeded in hacking into Hezbollah’s Al-Qard Al-Hassan financial organization and leaked details on depositors and borrowers from the lender, Lebanese media reported on Tuesd… Continue reading Hezbollah-affiliated financial org hacked, information leaked
Caroline Hudson reports: A Florida man has filed a class-action lawsuit regarding data breaches at Wyndham Capital Mortgage. Ethan Darnell filed the complaint on Dec. 10 in North Carolina’s Western District Court. In October, Charlotte-based Wynd… Continue reading NC: Charlotte’s Wyndham Capital involved in class-action lawsuit over data breaches
InterFax reports: The broker Freedom Finance has admitted the leak of data on 16,000 clients, saying the data dated 2018, Timur Turlov, founder and general director of the broker, said on his Instagram account. It was earlier reported that the broker c… Continue reading RU: Freedom Finance admits data leak of 16,000 clients