Banque Catonale de Geneve
January 9, 2015
•[ hack, leak, ransomware ]
The infamous Hacking Group Rex Mundi is active also in the new year, and after blackmailing Banque Cantonale de Geneve (BCGE), dumps details of about 30,000 bank's customers, after the bank rejects the request to pay a ransom of EUR10,000 ($12,000).
Hirsche Private Asset
January 7, 2015
•[ leak, finance ]
Hirsche Private Asset notifies his customers of a security breach, warning them to ignore any information coming from third parties.
OP Pohjola Group
January 5, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, finance ]
The new year starts in a terrible way for the Finnish bank OP Pohjola Group and its customers. A DDoS attack floods OP's data communications systems and prevents customers from executing online transactions.
Scottrade
January 1, 2015
•[ hack, finance ]
hacked
Fidelity National Financial
October 27, 2014
•[ social, phishing, finance ]
Fidelity National Financial notifies an undisclosed number of individuals that their personal information may have been accessible after a small number of employees had their email accounts compromised in a targeted phishing attack.
Warsaw Stock Exchange
October 24, 2014
•[ hack, leak, finance ]
The Warsaw Stock Exchange is allegedly hacked. A supporter of ISIS claims responsibility for the attack, leading to the leak of 30 Mb of Data.
United Overseas Bank
October 1, 2014
•[ financial, hack, finance ]
A gang of Latin American Hackers steals more than $1.2 million from 17 automated teller machines (ATMs) belonging to United Overseas Bank, Affin Bank, Al Rajhi Bank and Bank of Islam in Malaysia.
BTC-E
October 1, 2014
•[ hack, finance ]
In October 2014, the Bitcoin exchange BTC-E was hacked and 568k accounts were exposed. The data included email and IP addresses, wallet balances and hashed passwords.
The Brightside Group
September 29, 2014
•[ hack, finance ]
The Brightside Group, manager of several motor insurance websites, acknowledges a breach in its security system.
Banorte
August 18, 2014
•[ leak, finance ]
In August 2022, millions of records from Mexican bank "Banorte" were publicly dumped on a popular hacking forum including 2.1M unique email addresses, physical addresses, names, phone numbers, RFC (tax) numbers, genders and bank balances. Banorte have stated that the data is "outdated", although have not yet indicated how far back it dates to. Anecdotal feedback from HIBP subscribers suggests the data may date back 8 years to 2014.
Nordea
July 9, 2014
•[ hack, ddos, finance ]
Anonymous Norway starts multiple DDoS attacks towards major banks and insurance companies in Norway, including the country's largest telecommunications company, Telenor.
Total Bank
July 3, 2014
•[ hack, finance ]
Total Bank notifies its users following a compromise of the institution's computer network.
Privatbank
June 30, 2014
•[ hack, finance ]
Hackers from the Green Dragon Crew hack Privatbank, the bank owned by Ukrainian businessman Ihor Kolomoyskyi.
Placemark Investments
June 10, 2014
•[ hack, finance ]
Placemark Investments begins notifying an undisclosed number of clients that their personal information may have been exposed when one of its servers was breached.
Paytime Inc.
May 16, 2014
•[ hack, finance ]
An undisclosed number of individuals may have had personal information compromised after hackers took advantage of a vulnerability in systems belonging to Paytime Inc., a Pennsylvania payroll company.
Aktif Bank
April 18, 2014
•[ hack, ddos, finance ]
Members of the hacktivist collective RedHack claim to have breached into the systems of Aktif Bank (aktifbank.com.tr), Turkey's largest privately owned investment bank. They also launched a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on the website.
CoinEX
March 19, 2014
•[ hack, finance ]
CoinEX.pw confirms it recently suffered a hack resulting in the theft of all the bitcoins in its possession.
Bitstamp
February 12, 2014
•[ hack, ddos, finance ]
Bitcoin exchange service Bitstamp suspends withdrawals while dealing with a denial-of-service (DOS) attack.
Bitstamp
February 11, 2014
•[ hack, malware, finance ]
Reuters reports that the virtual currency Bitcoin is being hit by attacks from unknown hackers sending "mutated" lines of code into the program that runs the virtual currency. Two exchanges, Bitstamp and Mt. Gox, are affected.
PrezidentBank
February 7, 2014
•[ hack, finance ]
The official websites of two Turkmenistan state-owned commercial banks are hacked and defaced by Dr.Sha6h, to raise awareness of the situation in Syria. The victims are: Turkmenbashi Bank (tbbank.gov.tm), PrezidentBank (presidentbank.gov.tm).
