A new month, a new Privacy Monday. JPMorgan Chase: Baiting the Hook for Phishers Cybercrime researchers say that the 83 million customer records (76 million consumer and 7 million small business) swiped from JPMC could be the fuel for years of fraud. In its 10-K filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, JPMC disclosed the nature and scope… Continue Reading
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Hack Attack: US Financial Institutions in the Cross-Hairs
Posted in Data Breach, Identity TheftWritten by Amy Malone Last week the FBI released a fraud alert warning financial institutions that cyber criminals have been using tactics such as spam and phishing emails to obtain employee log-in credentials. After obtaining the credentials the hackers initiated wire transfers oversees. A few days after the alert, Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase and… Continue Reading
LinkedIn Passwords Hacked - UPDATE
Posted in Data Breach4:44 PM — LinkedIn has confirmed reports of hacking - http://blog.linkedin.com/2012/06/06/linkedin-member-passwords-compromised/ It’s time for a little password hygiene. ZDNet reports that a Russian organization claims to have downloaded over 6.4 million passwords from LinkedIn. They also report that some 300,000 of them may have already been accessed. LinkedIn has yet to confirm these details… Continue Reading
Major e-mail data breach occurs at mega-marketer
Posted in UncategorizedBy now, you’ve probably received one or more emails like this: Dear Valued Best Buy Customer, On March 31, we were informed by Epsilon, a company we use to send emails to our customers, that files containing the email addresses of some Best Buy customers were accessed without authorization. We have been assured by Epsilon… Continue Reading
