Collaborate Disseminate
Jed Horowitz reports: Former and current Morgan Stanley customers have filed a putative class-action lawsuit alleging negligence and invasion of privacy over the firm’s failure to properly scrub decommissioned hardware of personal information such as s… Continue reading Morgan Stanley Hit with Class Lawsuit Over Alleged Data Breaches
Kiwibank is investigating how it sent 4200 customers an email or online bank statement with their own account number, name and address, but another person’s transaction history. The commissioner, John Edwards, said some people will be identifiabl… Continue reading NZ: Kiwibank breach ‘significant’ – Privacy Commissioner
Brian Krebs reports: In May 2019, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that the website of mortgage title insurance giant First American Financial Corp. had exposed approximately 885 million records related to mortgage deals going back to 2003. On Wednesday,… Continue reading NY Charges First American Financial for Massive Data Leak
Kate Hanniford of Alston & Bird writes: On July 10, the SEC’s Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (OCIE) issued a Risk Alert noting the increasing sophistication of ransomware attacks on SEC registrants and service providers to SEC re… Continue reading SEC’s OCIE Issues Ransomware Risk Alert
Hunton Andrews Kurth writes: The Italian Data Protection Authority (Garante per la protezione dei dati personali, “Garante”) recently announced that it levied a €600,000 fine on banking institution UniCredit for several violations of the Italian Person… Continue reading Italian Garante Fines Bank 600,000 Euros for Pre-GDPR Data Breach
Derek Kortepeter reports: Proofpoint researchers have published findings on a campaign involving the Hakbit ransomware. As their blog post states, the ransomware is being spread via spear-phishing emails targeted at individuals in “mid-level positions … Continue reading Hakbit ransomware campaign targeting specific European countries
There’s an update to a case previously noted on this site. From RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty: The United States has deported a Russian hacker who was sentenced to 48 months in prison for stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from online banki… Continue reading U.S. Deports Russian Hacker Convicted Of Stealing Almost $1 Million
Grace Macrae reports: China has opened another front against India with sustained cyber attacks targeting government websites and banking systems. The Chinese DDOS (distributed denial of service) attacks have targeted information websites and the count… Continue reading China launches cyber attacks on government websites and banks following India massacre
KBS reports that Seoul police are investigating a “possible massive leak” of data of local credit and debit cards. Police said on Monday that they seized two external hard drives from a suspect surnamed Lee, who allegedly attempted to hack … Continue reading KR: Police Launch Probe into Possible Leak of Credit Card Data
ITWeb reports: The Postbank is having to replace about 12 million bank cards at a cost of R1 billion after a major security breach that exposes the personal data of millions of social grant beneficiaries and other account holders, Sunday Times reports…. Continue reading ZA: Postbank to replace 12m bank cards after security breach