While the dust is still settling and the forensic teams finish their investigations over at Heartland Payment Systems (HPY), and the line of banks and credit unions begin to form to jump onto the litigation bandwagon because their customers' card were hit in this latest data breach ... one thing jumps out at those of...
Let's talk about how a big disaster becomes an even bigger one.
On Tues., Jan. 20 - Inauguration Day - Heartland Payment Systems (HPY) President/CFO Robert Baldwin announced the company had been breached sometime in 2008.Heartland, which processes roughly 100 million transactions per month for 250,000 different...
Heartland Payment Systems, the sixth-largest payments processor in the U.S., announced Monday that its processing systems were breached in 2008, exposing an undetermined number of consumers to potential fraud.
Meanwhile, Forcht Bank, one of the 10 largest banks in Kentucky, told its customers it would begin...
The combined cost of the TJX and Hannaford data breaches on 75 Maine financial institutions totaled more than $2 million, showing the substantial financial impact of a data breach.
This cost was discovered in a recent study by the Maine Bureau of Financial Institutions and makes the case for more stringent data...
Phishing, malware and the Nigerian 404 scam. These are among the top 2009 agenda items for the M&I Corporation in Wisconsin - not just to fight the threats, but to make customers more aware of them.
Customer awareness is a huge priority for Wisconsin's largest bank, says Scott Coghill, CISM, Vice President,...
A U.S. payment processing arm of the Royal Bank of Scotland, RBS WorldPay, says that its computer system was hacked in November and personal information on 1.5 million cardholders may have been affected. Only about 100 cardholders were directly affected by fraud, the company says in a public announcement about the...
Reported data breaches increased by nearly half in 2008, and 12 percent of the total hacks were at financial institutions - up from 7 percent in 2007.
This is the news from the Identity Theft Resource Center's (ITRC) 2008 breach report, which shows that 2008's 656 reported breaches were up 47 percent over 2007's...
Sitting down at your desk wondering how you're going to get your info sec budget through the next finance meeting unscathed and still manage to meet all of your department's regulatory requirements? Well, I can assure you, you're not alone.
Check fraud. Crimes against children and the elderly. These are among the current faces of Identity Theft, and experts expect to see even more of these opportunistic crimes in 2009.
To help prevent these crimes - and to help banking institutions to protect their customers - Linda Foley, founder of the Identity...
Red flags, vendor management, business continuity and disaster recovery. If banking/security leaders thought that 2008 was a challenging year for keeping up with regulatory mandates, the old rock and roll song's lyrics say it best: "You ain't seen nothing yet."
Based on expert insight, the following 10 regulatory...
As wild as the end of 2008 has been, I can't get my mind off 2009.
This is because I'm just now helping to put the finishing touches on our annual State of Banking Information Security survey, which helps us take the pulse of the banking/security community, so we can gauge the priorities for the year ahead.
Last...
At a time when resources are tight and risks are abundant, many banking institutions are going mobile.
This is one of the findings of the recent Banking Confidence Survey, wherein 41% of respondents say their immediate business objectives include investment in new and enhanced services such as mobile banking. Their...
State-chartered credit unions may think they've at least temporarily dodged the enforcement bullet re: the Identity Theft Red Flags Rule. But just because the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) pushed back the compliance enforcement deadline for these institutions doesn't mean that they can take a break, industry experts...
Interview with Banking/Security Expert Bill Sewall
As of Nov. 1, banking institutions are now eligible to be examined by federal regulators for compliance with the new Identity Theft Red Flags Rule.
So, what should banking/security leaders expect from their initial examinations?
In an exclusive interview,...
One night in early October, Harbor Credit Union of Green Bay, WI, warned its members of a recent mass of robocalls. "An automated dialer started phoning people and telling them that their account had been compromised, and asking them to enter information," says Mike DeGrand, president of the institution. People were...
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