TaxAct
January 11, 2016
•[ hack, finance ]
Tax software maker TaxAct informs some of its customers that an unauthorized third party accessed their TaxAct account in late 2015.
Japanese Banks' Customers
January 7, 2016
•[ financial, malware, finance ]
Researchers at IBM X-Force unmask the cybergang that controls the Rovnix Trojan launching an aggressive campaign against 14 major Japanese Banks.
Central Coast Credit Union
January 1, 2016
•[ hack, finance ]
hacked
Mossack Fonseca
January 1, 2016
•[ leak, finance ]
Isbank
December 26, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, finance ]
Anonymous claims responsibility for the wave of DDoS attacks against Turkey (accusing the government of supporting ISIS) and starts a second wave against some Turkish leading banks such as Isbank, Garanti and Ziraat Bank.
Central Bank of India
November 27, 2015
•[ hack, finance ]
Pakistani hackers hack the website of the Central Bank of India.
Invest Bank
November 25, 2015
•[ hack, leak, ransomware ]
A hacker called Hacker Buba hacks into Invest Bank and holds it to ransom, demanding $3M, and leaking confidential data of clients on Twitter every few hours.
Unknown Organization
November 25, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, finance ]
Turkish hackers from Turk Hack Team take down the official website of Russian Central Bank (cbr.ru) amid tension near Syrian-Turkey border.
Swedbank
November 6, 2015
•[ ransomware, ddos, finance ]
Swedbank is taken down by a DDoS attack. A hacker called CocaineSecurity claims to have received a ransom.
Dow Jones & Co.
October 9, 2015
•[ espionage, hack, finance ]
A new breach targeting Dow Jones & Co. Bloomberg reveals that a group of Russian hackers infiltrated the servers and stole information to trade on before it became public. The probe began at least a year ago.
LoopPay
October 7, 2015
•[ espionage, finance ]
The New York Times reveals that months before its technology became the centerpiece of Samsung's new mobile payment system, LoopPay, a small Massachusetts subsidiary of the South Korean electronics giant, was the target of a sophisticated attack by a group known as the Codoso Group.
FXCM
October 5, 2015
•[ financial, finance ]
Foreign-exchange broker FXCM privately informs clients to have suffered a data breach and that the attackers have been able to steal funds from some accounts.
American Bankers Association
October 1, 2015
•[ leak, finance ]
The American Bankers Association (ABA), based in Washington, D.C., notifies more than 6,000 ABA shopping cart users of a breach that exposed their personal information.
Patreon
October 1, 2015
•[ hack, misconfiguration, finance ]
Patreon, the website that allows people to maintain regular donations to a website, an artist, or project, announces to have suffered a security breach. The site says some registered names, e-mail addresses, and mailing addresses were accessed after someone managed to access a debug version of the site.
Banca Intesa
September 28, 2015
•[ hack, leak, finance ]
In the name of #OpBankDump, Ghost Italy, a local cell of the Anonymous collective, hacks Banca Intesa and Unipol Banca, and leaks several databases, mainly related to external contractors. They also deface the main pages of the banks.
Experian (2015)
September 16, 2015
•[ hack, misconfiguration, finance ]
In September 2015, the US based credit bureau and consumer data broker Experian suffered a data breach that impacted 15 million customers who had applied for financing from T-Mobile. An alleged data breach was subsequently circulated containing personal information including names, physical and email addresses, birth dates and various other personal attributes. Multiple Have I Been Pwned subscribers verified portions of the data as being accurate, but the actual source of it was inconclusive therefor this breach has been flagged as "unverified".
Hawaii First Federal Credit Union
September 3, 2015
•[ social, phishing, finance ]
Hawaii First Federal Credit Union notifies an undisclosed number of customers that an unauthorized individual may have gained access to an employee's email account, and could have accessed personal information.
Two undisclosed UAE banks
August 3, 2015
•[ hack, finance ]
Several credit cards are being replaced across the UAE by some banks following a possible security beach involving online hackers.
RBS Banking Group
July 31, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, finance ]
The RBS banking group reveals it suffered a cyber attack on its online services that left customers struggling to log on for nearly an hour.
CoinCut
July 23, 2015
•[ leak, finance ]
UK bitcoin exchange CoinCut is investigating a possible data breach which exposed sensitive customer information including passport and card data to the public.
