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On 5/12/2012 11:02:00 pm
Official Website of "Bank of Punjab" (Well-known Pakistani Bank) Hacked By Hitcher
Not only Bank of Punjab, IDBI & UBI, this year we have seen such attacks hacker collective group named
Teamgreyhat has rooted the server of
Islami Bank Bangladesh & maintain their access for more than 2 days & another
Pakistani calling himself
"GiRl-RiD3r-H3x()r" successfully carried out an attack on the official website of
Pune Urban Bank.
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On 4/18/2012 11:25:00 pm
3 Million Bank Accounts Hacked To Prove Vulnerability in Banking System of Iran
A security geek from a payment service provider (PSP) company, has hacked accounts of three million bank customers to prove vulnerability in the banking security systems. That PSP offers a number of Iranian banks online services for accepting electronic payments & the guy found major security issue in the electronic payment system. The Central Bank of Iran issued a statement on Sunday advising the bank customers to change the passwords of their bank cards to prevent possible credit card fraud. An official at the Central Bank of Iran told Iranian news agency IRNA that no one has illegally accessed people's bank accounts. According to sources the hacker had provided the managing directors of the targeted banks with information about the bank accounts of 1,000 customers in the previous Iranian calendar year (ended on March 19) to warn them about the susceptibility of their computer systems and networks to cyber threats. After this security breach Govt assured Bank customers that there will be no harm in their bank balance. "It is possible that certain individuals have some information but they cannot use this information until the bank cards are not in their possession," Said the authority.
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On 1/05/2013 09:48:00 pm
Citi Bank & Bank of America Faced Sent Offline After Massive DDoS Attack (Operation Ababil)
Late in last year
we have
reported that major banking and finical sector of America faced massive
cyber attack. The attack came just after
'anti Islamic' video was posted online. During the time of attack the hacker group named
'Izz ad-Din al Qassam Cyber Fighters' said "these series of attacks will continue until the Erasing of that nasty movie from the Internet". But now its seems that, the earlier deceleration of the hacker collective group was fake, as they again engaged
denial of service attack against large banking sector, where
Citi Bank and
Bank of America fallen victim. Several website of those above banks were
reported offline for a certain period of time. "Just moments ago Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters attacked CitiBank and made all the parts out of reach. This was the 2nd attack this day. Banks could not stop al-Qassam Cyber fighters this week" - said the hacker group in their blog. In thier blog Hilf-ol-Fozoul reports that on Thursday several domains of Citi Bank such as
citicards.com,
citibank.com and
citi.com were inaccessible during the pick hours. "In the 3rd week from Operation Ababil, Bank of America faced technical difficulties due to heavy traffic made by al - Qassam Cyber Fighters and users can no more reach the site."
said the hackers.
The
Citi Bank’s representatives
acknowledged the cyber attack while saying “Currently we are aware & are working on technical issues with Citi websites. We will let you know when service is fully restored. We apologize for the inconvenience. Please call the number on the back of your card if you need immediate assistance,” on
Twitter. But the representatives of
Bank of America have not issued any statements on the matter.
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On 2/01/2013 08:53:00 pm
3 Russian Cyber Criminal Who Was The Master Mind of Banking Trojan 'Gozi' Charged in New York
Yet again another serious issue of cyber crime get resolved when the FBI tracked and figured out the master mind of infamous 'Gozi banking Trojan' which effected more than millions of system world wide, including a handful at NASA, leading to tens of millions of dollars in lost banking funds and damages to computer systems and networks. Three alleged international cyber criminals from Russia, responsible for creating and distributing 'Gozi' that infected over one million computers and caused tens of millions of dollars in losses charged in Manhattan Federal Court. Mihai Ionut Paunescu aged 28, a Romanian, Deniss Calovskis, 27, a Latvian, and Nikita Vladimirovich Kuzmin, 25, of the Russian Federation, are charged with computer intrusion, conspiracy to commit bank and wire fraud and access device fraud. Federal authorities said the three were arrested last week; Kuzmin is being held in New York, while Paunescu is in custody in Romania and Calovskis in Latvia.
According to the press release of FBI -Deniss Calovskis, a/k/a “Miami,” a Latvian national who allegedly wrote some of the computer code that made the Gozi virus so effective, was arrested in Latvia in November 2012. Mihai Ionut Paunescu, a/k/a “Virus,” a Romanian national who allegedly ran a “bulletproof hosting” service that enabled cyber criminals to distribute the Gozi virus, the Zeus trojan, and other notorious malware and to conduct other sophisticated cyber crimes, was arrested in Romania in December 2012.
The cases are being handled by the Complex Frauds Unit of the United States Attorney’s Office. Assistant United States Attorneys Sarah Lai, Nicole Friedlander, and Thomas G.A. Brown, along with Trial Attorney Carol Sipperly of the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section of the Department of Justice on the Paunescu case, are in charge of the prosecution. The charges contained in the Indictments are merely accusations, and the defendants are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.
| Defendant | Age and Residence | Charges | Maximum Penalty |
|---|
| Nikita Kuzmin | 25; Moscow, Russia | Conspiracy to commit bank fraud; bank fraud; conspiracy to commit access device fraud; access device fraud; conspiracy to commit computer intrusion; computer intrusion | 95 years in prison |
| Deniss Calovskis | 27; Riga, Latvia | Conspiracy to commit bank fraud; conspiracy to commit access device fraud; conspiracy to commit computer intrusion; conspiracy to commit wire fraud; conspiracy to commit aggravated identity theft | 67 years in prison |
| Mihai Ionut Paunescu | 28; Bucharest, Romania | Conspiracy to commit computer intrusion; conspiracy to commit bank fraud; conspiracy to commit wire fraud | 60 years in prison |
Brief About Gozi:-
The Gozi virus is malicious computer code, or
“malware,” that steals personal bank account information, including usernames and passwords, from the users of affected computers. It was named by private sector information security experts in the U.S. who, in 2007, discovered that previously unrecognized malware was stealing personal bank account information from computers across Europe on a vast scale, while remaining virtually undetectable in the computers it infected. To date, the Gozi virus has infected over one million victim computers worldwide, among them at least 40,000 computers in the U.S., including computers belonging to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), as well as computers in Germany, Great Britain, Poland, France, Finland, Italy, Turkey, and elsewhere, and it has caused tens of millions of dollars in losses to the individuals, businesses, and government entities whose computers were infected.
The Gozi virus was distributed to victims’ computers in several different ways. In one method, the virus was disguised as an apparently benign
.pdf document which, when opened, secretly installed the Gozi virus on the victim’s computer. Once installed, the Gozi virus—which was intentionally designed to be undetectable by anti-virus software—collected data from the infected computer in order to capture personal bank account information including usernames and passwords. That data was then transmitted to various computer servers controlled by the cyber criminals who used the Gozi virus. These
cyber criminals then used the personal bank account information to transfer funds out of the victims’ bank accounts and ultimately into their own personal possession.
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On 4/29/2012 04:32:00 pm
Pune Urban Bank Hacked & Defaced By GiRl-RiD3r-H3x()r
A hacker from
Pakistan calling himself "
GiRl-RiD3r-H3x()r" successfully carried out an attack on the official website of
Pune Urban Bank. He managed to hack into the bank web-server and defaced the home page. A deface mirror has been created on
Zone-h by the hacker. GiRl-RiD3r-H3x()r belongs to a newly formed group named "Pak Cyber hunTerZ". After 12 hours of hack, still the home page is showing "Under Maintenance" message. This year we have seen many attacks on
bank sites, another Pakistani hacker named "
Hitcher" hacked into
United Bank of India &
IDBI. Also another hacker collective group named
Teamgreyhat has rooted the server of
Islami Bank Bangladesh & maintain their access for more than 2 days.
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On 1/09/2012 05:58:00 pm
BJP Leader
Mr. Nagaraj Shetty's bank account get hacked. As per report cyber criminals have hijacked his 4 bank accounts and sum amounting to
Rs 4 lakh was been transferred to a bank account at Moradabad in Uttar Pradesh on Saturday. Following complaint by Shetty, Bunder North Police Inspector
Vinay Goankar ensured that the Moradabad account was frozen by informing bank authorities there. Goankar said steps are being taken to reverse the transfer of money done on line. The account to which the money was transferred is held by one
Anil Dil Singh. Goankar, the investigating officer IT related offences, said verification process is on to find out whether Singh is the actual account holder, who introduced him to the bank etc. Few days earlier THA Disastar, a hacker from The Hackers Army has hacked and defaced the official
website of BJP Karnataka. And this time one of BJP leader's bank account get hacked. So we can easily predict that BJP has became a common target of cyber criminals.
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Posted by Avik Sarkar
On 10/02/2011 03:25:00 pm
Bank of America said Friday that problems with its website are not related to any online breaches or attacks. The $2.36 trillion bank posted a message on its homepage, saying simply that the site was temporary unavailable. Tara Burke, a spokeswoman for BofA, says "some" BofA customers reported having trouble accessing their online banking accounts. But "a majority of our customers can bank online."
Julie McNelley, a fraud analyst at Aite, says the timing of the outage is curious, coming only one day after BofA announced plans to begin charging fees associated with debit-card purchases. "It wouldn't be the first time a hacktivist group used a denial of service attack to express their displeasure over a company policy," McNelley says. But Burke says the bank's site troubles are not related to a hack or a breach, and that the site issues have been sporadic.
In November 2010, a similar outage struck BofA and several other institutions, including Chase, U.S. Bank and Wells Fargo. Given the number of institutions affected, industry pundits speculated that the November outage was linked to a third-party or core processor that manages online banking for various institutions.
-News Source (BANK INFO SECURITY)
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On 3/07/2012 04:50:00 pm
United Bank of India Under Cyber-Attack, UBI Mobile Site Hacked By Hitcher
Last week Pakistani hacker named
Hitcher has hacked into
IDBI Bank and blown the official website of IDBI Paisabuilder & Paisabuilder.in (both are the Online stock & share trading portal of India owned by IDBI Bank.) Now he moved his attack to another important Bank and that is United Bank of India widely known and UBI. As expected here he has hacked into the UBI Mobile Home (A sub-domain of UBI for Mobile Banking) and defaced the
homepage as well as
Administrator login panel. The hacker has also created a deface mirror on
Legend-H. Later the UBI authority has restored the index page to its normal format but still the Admin login link is defaced.
Hacked Site:-
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On 3/02/2012 03:08:00 am
IDBI Bank Under Cyber-Attack, IDBI Paisabuilder Hacked By Hitcher
Well-known Pakistani hacker from Pak Cyber Force (
PCF) named
Hitcher strikes again. Here he targeted
IDBI Bank - A new generation Government owned bank and blown the official website of
IDBI Paisabuilder &
Paisabuilder.in (both are the Online stock & share trading portal of India owned by IDBI Bank.) As expected the hacker has also created a deface mirror on
Zone-H.
http://www.idbipaisabuilder.in/
Brief About IDBI Paisabuilder & Capital Market:-
IDBI Capital Market Services Ltd. (IDBI Capital), a wholly owned subsidiary of IDBI Bank Ltd., is a fully integrated financial services provider catering to the needs of retail, institutional and corporate clients. Incorporated in December 1993, today it has a net-worth of around INR 3 billion and employs over 300 employees in 33 branches, spread over 24 cities across India. The Retail Broking & Distribution division of IDBI Capital offers online trading in Equities, F&O, Mutual Funds and IPOs, through the investing portal, www.idbipaisabuilder.in. We also distribute various Third Party Products, like Fixed Income Products, Mutual Funds, Life Insurance, etc. We are amongst the top 10 MF distributors in India.
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On 1/07/2012 09:31:00 pm
Another malware named
"Gameover" is targeting bank accounts via phishing emails. Cyber criminals have found yet another way to steal your hard-earned money: a recent phishing scheme involves spam e-mails—purportedly from the
National Automated Clearing House Association (NACHA),
the Federal Reserve Bank, or the
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)—that can infect recipients’ computers with malware and allow access to their bank accounts.
The malware is appropriately called
“Gameover” because once it’s on your computer, it can steal usernames and passwords and defeat common methods of user authentication employed by financial institutions. And once the crooks get into your bank account, it’s definitely “game over.” Gameover is a newer variant of the
Zeus malware, which was created several months ago and specifically targeted banking information. Few days ago
Ramnit worm did the same thing. It steals more than 45K Facebook Login details not only that but also more than 250K PC has been infected by Ramnit worm. It clearly showing that the rate of this cyber threat is going high and high.
After the perpetrators access your account, they conduct what’s called a distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attack using a botnet, which involves multiple computers flooding the financial institution’s server with traffic in an effort to deny legitimate users access to the site—probably in an attempt to deflect attention from what the bad guys are doing.
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On 3/05/2012 10:37:00 pm
Islami Bank Bangladesh Hacked By Teamgreyhat (Cyber-War 2.0 Continues)
The second phase of
Cyber-War or in other word Cyber-War 2.0 is going worse and worse for Bangladesh. Last Saturday hacktivist
Teamgreyhat has hacked the
Bangladesh Stock Market official website and their they have also vows to destroy the financial sector of Bangladesh. As expected the hackers keep their promise while hacking into another high profile and important Bangladeshi website. Today TGH confirmed that they have hacked into one of the largest Bank of Bangladesh named
Islami Bank Bangladesh Ltd. After this hack we must have to say that 1st Stock market then Bank, this cyber-war 2.0 is causing lots of damages for Bangladesh. According to TGH
press release they have claimed that they have rooted the Bank server and also during this hack the official site of
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Bangladesh get defaced.
The press release contains a message to
BCA to stop the cyber-war immediately. Also TGH claimed that they have breached the
BD Prime Minister Office(PMO) &
BD Parliament Network and gained more than
40 GB sensitive data of
BD govt.
Hacked Sites:-
Mirror Link:-
If you dig the
history you will come to know that TGH is known for executing mass deferments. Couple of months ago they have hacked
7 Thousand Websites while protesting against ACTA &
12K sites for another cause.
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On 6/27/2011 04:15:00 pm
The Cyber Crime Police, Cyberabad, arrested two persons, including a Nigerian national, Nebeolisa Olisaeloka Sunday alias Mike, 31 and an Indian student, Bharath Bhushan, 24, in Delhi for siphoning off Rs 1.82 lakh from a Hyderabad-based person's bank account, which occurred on May 13 at ICICI Bank, Madhapur. The police seized net cash of $5,100, Rs 4,000 (Indian currency), MTS data card (9136966232), two laptops, a Rolex watch, four cellphones and other documents from their possession. The Cyber Crime Police, Cyberabad received a complaint from a private employee, N Venkata Raghu Vara Prasad, 32 stating that someone had hacked his bank account and siphoned off Rs 1,82,565. The culprits had debited the amount and transferred the same to eBay vide bill Nos 000225488530 and 00022548979 and purchased some articles.
After correspondence with the bank, he approached the Cyber Crime Police and lodged a complaint. Accordingly, police registered a case and began investigation.
-News Source TOI
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On 4/29/2011 10:18:00 pm
Gaming giant Sony has confirmed subscribers’ card details have been stolen in the world’s biggest online hacking.
Following the revelation that 77 million subscriber accounts on Sony’s PS3 network had been hacked into, three million Brits are now vulnerable to being victims of identity fraud scams.
Customers should keep a close eye on their account for any unusual activity
The data stolen by the hackers includes names, postal addresses (including postcode, city and country), dates of birth, online IDs, email addresses, online passwords and other log-in details.
Sony has confirmed that all credit card data on its systems was stored in encrypted form, which should limit its usefulness for financial fraud.
However, other user data, such as passwords and address details, was stored in plain text, and will be open to use by “phishers” and spammers.
Although it took Sony a week to admit the colossal breach of online security, bank industry body Financial Fraud Action UK (FFA UK) has issued an urgent alert to victims.
“There’s no need for customers to contact their bank or card company at this stage,” said a FFA UK spokesman.
“However, customers should continue to do what they should normally be doing: checking their statement and keeping a close eye on their account for any unusual activity. If they spot any, they should contact their bank or card company.”
One of the major worries for UK PS3 subscribers is that many customers use the same passwords for their PlayStation account as they do for other financial accounts. FFA UK recommends they should change these passwords as soon as possible.
Victims of hacking have also been warned to watch out for spam emails - “phishing” attacks - which are targeted attempts to acquire confidential information.
Phishers send out emails that look like a genuine communication from the recipient’s credit card company or bank, with the request they fill in an online form with personal information.
This information can then be used to open accounts in the victim's name, such as mobile phone contracts or utility services, or used to apply for credit cards and loans.
Fraudsters can also open bank accounts, apply for state benefits, order goods in someone else's name and obtain genuine legal documents such as passports, driving licences and birth, marriage and death certificates.
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On 4/14/2012 05:18:00 pm
Cyber-Crime Such As Credit Card & Bank Fraud Growing up In Turkey
The rise of cyber-crime is kissing the sky, there is no boundary or as such no limitation. Not only US and UK, in every sphere of the world is filled up with cyber criminals. Recently we have reported that three out of four business crimes in Turkey are conducted online. "The internet means freedom, but ignoring security on this issue is out of the question," said Transportation Minister Yildirim.
Credit card and bank fraud are by far the most common Internet crimes in Turkey, according to the cyber crimes unit of the National Police Department. Officials from the cyber crimes unit said during a presentation on Friday to the parliamentary commission on the Internet, led by Justice and Development Party (AK Party) deputy Necdet Ünüvar, that 1,132 incidents of credit card and bank fraud occurred during 2010 and 1,005 individuals have been identified as the suspected perpetrators. Attacks on information systems became the second most common online crime in the same year, with 975 cases reported to police and 1,351 suspects identified. Online bank swindling was the third most common crimes, with 151 cases, according to the police presentation.
Reported Internet crimes totaled 2,357 in 2010 and 2,905 suspects have been identified in the investigations of these crimes. In 2009, a total of 2,871 incidents were reported to the police and 4,670 suspects were identified. Police officials noted that the estimated figures are much higher, but a remarkable number of cases are not reported to police.
"In Turkey, 55 million people are using the internet," Tayfun Acarer, head of Turkey's Telecommunications Authority, told SES Türkiye. Online crimes in Turkey are sanctioned by Law No. 5651 on Regulating Broadcasting on the Internet and Fighting Crimes Committed through Internet Broadcasting. This law, however, does not specifically target online business crimes. The much debated internet filtering system or "safe internet", which kicked off in late 2011, protects against possible hacker and other illegal intrusions in online trading.
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On 2/24/2012 10:02:00 pm
SriLanka Under Cyber Attack-3 Bank & 7 Govt Websites Hacked By H4x0rL1f3
SriLanka is facing massive cyber attack, a hacker named
H4x0rL1f3 from
Pakistan has hacked the offcial websites of three SriLankan bank (USAID, MCB Bank Limited, & Union Bank of SriLanka) and seven other high profile websites of SriLanka Govt. The list of all those hacked sites & deface mirrors can be found on a
pasetbin release by the hacker.
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On 1/17/2012 12:57:00 am
The threat of Hacker group "nightmare" was not prank. It was clearly proved on 10 AM (pick hour) when
Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) and
El Al’s respective websites goes offline. TASE's website was only partially functioning, while El Al’s website did not function at all. Following the attack, Israeli Bank ordered to block IP addresses from Saudi Arabia, Iran and Algeria, fearing hackers could penetrate databases of Israeli banks. Even before Israel Bank gave the order, Discount bank and Bank Leumi blocked international access altogether.
The hack comes in the wake of a series of cyber attacks over the past two weeks, and only a day after Hamas called for harsher hacking attempts against Israeli websites.
“The penetration into Israeli websites opens a new front for electronic resistance and war against the Israeli occupation,” said
Hamas spokesperson Sami Abu Zuhri on Sunday during a news conference in the Gaza Strip. A TASE spokesperson stated that the trading system and the website are not connected, emphasizing that the trading system was in no way damaged by the hack.
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On 12/08/2011 11:23:00 am
Cyber criminals hit a school. About $6,000 was stolen from a SunTrust Bank account for Deer Chase Elementary School in September by a “fraudulent hacking group” based in Florida, Richmond County schools. The same group accessed Deer Chase’s PTA fund in 2010, using debit transactions to pay for $8,000 of child support payments and cellphone and cable bills, bank statements show.
In both cases, SunTrust refunded most of the money, and Svehla said the bank has taken over the investigation into the matter. A SunTrust representative, however, would not comment on the issue nor confirm that a hacking group had accessed the accounts.
In Richmond County, about six people a month become victims of Internet hacking, which is a 60 percent increase since 2008, according to the sheriff’s office. Although school system officials said the Deer Chase incidents are the first time in at least 20 years that a school account has been hacked, there are precautions now that might prevent more problems in the future. Brian Rivers, an information security officer at the University of Georgia, said anyone or any organization can become a target for hackers. If Internet users accidentally end up with malicious spy software installed on a computer, any credit card or account number they type on a Web site is visible to a hacker.
Hackers can also get financial information on a person from banks or collect personal information from other organizations and use it to steal someone’s identity, he said.
“That’s why there’s such a big business around hacking systems,” Rivers said.
About 6,563 cybercrimes in Georgia were reported to the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center in 2010, which Rivers said is significant; the country’s worst year for hacking was 2008.
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On 7/11/2011 06:10:00 am
An Icelandic bank that unknowingly provided a way for WikiLeaks supporters to fund the controversial website best known for publishing classified military and diplomatic websites earlier this week has closed the proverbial loophole, according to Reuters reports.
In a story published Friday, Maria Aspan of the wire service revealed that Valitor had agreed earlier this week to accept payments processed by DataCell, a data hosting service provider and a WikiLeaks supporter. However, bank officials later told Aspan that they had not been informed that the transactions would include donations to the Julian Assange owned website.
Credit giants Visa and MasterCard have banned DataCell from processing such donations for months, and on Friday, Valitor spokeswoman Jonina Ingvadottir sent an emailed statement to Reuters stating that the bank "was not informed that DataCell would be conducting these activities when their business agreement was made," and another source told Aspan that Valitor had "blocked the Visa and MasterCard WikiLeaks donations and terminated its contract with DataCell" earlier in the day.
That source told Reuters that less than 100 donations were processed before the agreement was terminated.
"The failed Valitor partnership is the latest blow to Assange, who has struggled to gain funding since the major payments networks stopped processing payments to WikiLeaks," Aspan wrote.
"The Internet vigilante group Anonymous temporarily shut down the public websites of both Visa and MasterCard in December after the companies began their embargo."
She added that Olaf Sigurvinsson, the founder of DataCell, "confirmed that Valitor had terminated the contract with his company" and that when the contract was signed, he had made it "absolutely clear" to the Icelandic financial institution that the company would "continue… to collect donations" for various organizations, including WikiLeaks.
On a special page dedicated solely to donations, Sigurvinsson's company posted a statement in which they said, "DataCell advocates free speech and jurisdiction independence. We plead the public support for the independence of media and jurisdiction; and to bring truth, integrity, dignity and justice to the world… You can help by donating financially to the following organizations."
Further down on the page is a form which individuals can donate by credit card to WikiLeaks.
In addition, the web page claims that, "DataCell is taking on legal case against Visa and MasterCard for suspending its account, for which DataCell was processing credit card donation for WikiLeaks. Please contribute to DataCell legal fund to support in its legal battle against credit card giants for their unjustified and prejudicial action."
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On 12/13/2013 01:22:00 am
Michigan Unemployment Insurance Agency (UIA) Hacked! 8,500 Recipients Personal Data Leaked
A major
security breach has invaded
Unemployment Insurance Agency of Michigan, widely known as
UIA.
Sources revealed that the attack was placed in between mid of July to mid of September which affected more than
8,500 unemployment insurance recipients in Michigan with
leak of s
ocial security numbers, bank account numbers, passwords, phone numbers & few other sensitive data. This
security breach was first detected Sept. 17 by contractor JP Morgan Chase. In his reaction the director of the Unemployment Insurance Agency, Shaun Thomas said -
“The UIA is deeply concerned about this incident.” But due to some untold reason state official were not notified until this December first week. Dan Lohrmann, the state’s chief security officer in the Department of Technology, Management and Budget, said he has “worked closely with JP Morgan Chase to share our concern about the delayed notification and to ensure that the state receives immediate notice of future problems.
“We work around the clock to keep citizen information and data protected, and I feel confident that everyone involved in this event understands the importance of protecting personal information.” Chase, which handles the debit cards Michigan uses to pay unemployment insurance benefits to some recipients, said those who accessed the bank’s website between mid-July and mid-September may have been affected. The 8,500 claimants in Michigan are among about 465,000 cardholders nationwide who may have been affected, the bank said. So far the identity of the
hackers & their reasons behind this
attack is not been identified, but Chase has notified
law enforcement and both the bank and the state will be notifying claimants whose information was potentially compromised.
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On 10/16/2011 06:06:00 am
Dalton police are sending out a warning to customers of one local bank. That's because the machine customers use to access their cash has been compromised.
Dalton Police say customers who used the Regions Bank ATM at the intersection of Tibbs Road and Walnut Avenue might have gotten more than some quick cash. They could have attracted the attention of hackers. Police said someone planted a "skimmer" in the place of the card reader, which scans and then stores card numbers and Pins.
"That's scary because we have money in there," says Diana Gray from Tunnel Hill, who uses the ATM at least once a week. She says she can't believe someone might have all the information for her and her husband's primary checking account. "He gets paid through that card, so everything.. bills, shopping, eating, everything," said Gray.
While many bankers are saying that they're completely shocked that something like this could happen in their hometown, others are saying they're not surprised, and it's just a sign of the times we live in. "We know that if we use ATMs and we use debit cards that it's likely that it's something that can happen, it's just kind of the risk you take to do the easy banking," said Jason Cassidy from Dalton.
A spokesperson from Regions Bank released this statement after finding the skimmer:
"We discovered the device and reported the incident to authorities, and Regions is assisting in the ongoing investigation. While no customer information was compromised, we always encourage consumers to monitor their accounts and report any unusual activity they see."
-News Source (News Channel 9)
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