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Drama surrounds People's United Bank breach

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2008-04-08 12:47:21 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Bank Contractor/Consultant/Branch Various branches Victims Customers Number Affected hundreds Types of Data confidential financial data" and "private information, including customers' Social Security numbers and account information Breach Description For four months, James Hastings dove into Dumpsters outside People's United Bank...
 
Tags: bank, financial information, information, confidential information, people, bank deposit, hastings, james hastings dove, bank set
 
 
 
 
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Lost Bank of Ireland laptops affect roughly 10,000 customers

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2008-04-22 09:35:39 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Bank of Ireland Contractor/Consultant/Branch Drogheda, Dunleer, Bagnelstown, Court Place Carlow, Stephens Green, Tallaght, and Montrose Victims customers who either obtained a quote or took out a Life Assurance policy with Bank of Ireland Life from the following branches Drogheda Dunleer Bagnelstown Court Place Carlow Stephens Green...
 
Tags: bank, customers, information security, information, ireland, confidential information, ireland life option, ireland life, bank account details
 
 
 
 
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AIB technical problem discloses details of bank transfers

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2007-11-28 17:08:26 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Bank (AI Contractor/Consultant/Branch None Victims Certain AIB customers who made or received international payments between November 13th and 15th, 2007. Some customers of other banks involved in the transactions may also be affected Number Affected 11,000 AIB customers, unknown number of victims that are customers of other banks Types...
 
Tags: bank, account, bank account details, aib bank, bank account, aib, details, wrong customers, customers
 
 
 
 
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Five-year-old wanders into bank branch after-hours

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2008-02-06 10:24:03 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...banking records Breach Description The HSBC branch in Easingwold was found unlocked during non-business hours on Saturday, February 2nd. A five-year-old boy wandered into the bank while his father was using the cash machine. The bank was closed and unattended since 4:30 the previous day and no alarms were sounded Reference URL The Northern...
 
Tags: bank, customers, bank customers, bank after-hours, branch, door malfunction, bank doors, malfunction, breach description
 
 
 
 
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Central Bank of the UAE reports ATM fraud to lenders

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2008-03-03 11:41:37 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Bank of the UAE Contractor/Consultant/Branch Unknown lender Victims ATM customers Number Affected Unknown Types of Data Bank card and account details, PIN numbers, and possible other related information Breach Description The Central Bank of the UAE has issued a statement claiming that criminals installed a card skimming device and video...
 
Tags: bank card details, card details, bank, bank card, atm, regular card reader, reader, customers, bank customers
 
 
 
 
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OmniAmerican Bank targeted by cyber criminals

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2008-01-28 11:26:35 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Bank Contractor/Consultant/Branch None Victims Customers Number Affected Unknown Types of Data Internal bank systems and account numbers Breach Description An "international gang of cyber criminals" breached OmniAmerican bank systems and used a variety of information to create new personal identification numbers (PINs) and fake debit...
 
Tags: omniamerican bank, bank, omniamerican bank systems, omniamerican, internal, internal bank systems, debit cards, cards, bank employees
 
 
 
 
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Social-Engineering Bank Robbery

2008-01-16 06:36:39 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...bank in Wheaton about 11 a.m., was handed more than $500,000 in cash and walked out, a source familiar with the case said It wasn't until the actual AT Systems employees arrived at the bank, at 11501 Georgia Ave., the next day that bank officials realized they'd been had And on Thursday, about 9:30 a.m., a man dressed as an employee of the...
 
Tags: bank, officials, bank officials, bank official, bbt bank, security company brink, washington field office, company, office
 
 
 
 
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Thousands of customer bank details on stolen Boots backup tape

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2008-04-25 10:14:24 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...bank details Breach Description The high street chemist chain has today admitted losing 27,000 customer records and 7,000 employees details related to their dental plan. The information included bank account details, as well as names and addresses Reference URL BBC News CIO Magazine online ITPRO CompterWeekly Report Credit BBC News ...
 
Tags: boots, alliance boots, boots dental plan, tape, dental plan, dental plan customers, company employees, tapes, company
 
 
 
 
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Forgotten IT chores may have led to bank meltdown

2008-02-04 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b3caa8 in Network World on Security
 
The huge losses reported by French bank Société Générale, apparently caused by a rogue trader with inside knowledge of the bank's procedures, don't necessarily point to an IT systems failure but rather to poor management of those systems, analysts say
 
Tags: systems failure, systems, poor management, bank, inside knowledge, huge losses, rogue trader, procedures, apparently
 
 
 
 
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Phishing Pages for Every Bank are a Commodity

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2008-03-31 03:21:55 by HASH0x8b37d14 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...Bank of ****** were detected by *****, anti spam vendors are indicating a tremendous increase in phishing emails during the last quarter - phishing headlines as usual, isn't it? Phishing is logically supposed to increase, the convergence of phishing and bankers malware is already happening, segmentation of the emails database is only starting...
 
Tags: pages, phishers, myspace phishers, commodity, emails database, scale, scale concept, emails, bargain