Now four high street banks hit - dm

Paul_1977

Criminals are openly selling customer credit and debit-card details from four of Britain’s biggest high street banks on the internet.
HSBC, NatWest, Barclays and Halifax join TalkTalk and 14 other blue-chip companies whose customers’ confidential information is being sold illegally on the so-called ‘Dark Web’.
Hackers are advertising internet and telephone banking log-in details for accounts and even showing how much they contain. All the details needed to raid one account, allegedly containing £11,000, were for sale for £2,879.
They include the account holder’s name, address, 16-digit card number, three-digit security number, and card expiry date.


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All the banks we contacted denied they had been hacked and suggested that customers may have been targeted by hackers or fraudsters themselves. However, security experts warned that information technology weaknesses at major British banks make them ‘easy prey’ to hackers. Former MI6 intelligence officer Stuart Poole-Robb, now chief executive of internet security company KCS Group, said: ‘All the banks are being hit on a daily basis by hackers. Cyber- criminals are way ahead of banks in terms of technical sophistication.’
Our reporters logged on to one of the Dark Web’s most popular illegal sites, which claims to have more than 200,000 users.
We found a seller calling himself Zingyman, who was advertising customers’ bank account details.
He claims to have an unlimited number of NatWest and Barclays bank account details which he was selling for £31 and £36 respectively. Zingyman also claims to sell ‘high value’ Halifax bank account details with thousands of pounds in them for less than £3,000.
We bought a small sample of the NatWest bank accounts advertised.
We were sent an instant message with the name, address, mobile number, card number, security number and mother’s maiden name of an account belonging to Pamela Powling, 49, from Ashford, Kent.
She told us: ‘This is all pretty scary. I have no idea how these people got my details – I’m careful with my bank card.’


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3308675/I-ve-got-1million-TalkTalk-account-details-sell-web-says-hacker-Insider-reveals-Gang-ran-scam-like-bank-heist-picture-emerges-16-year-old-fourth-person-arrested.html#ixzz3qtjenZXP
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They can't all be customer error.

grumbler

They can - with all this endless phishing and spywhare activity on industrial scale.

Paul_1977

People must be very foolish to give out all these details.

I can understand bank card number and CV code, and maybe online banking details.

But when it asks for everything, dob, mothers madden name etc, surely alarms must go off.

grumbler

The details are normally taken by spywhare, not given out by people.
For online banking DOB and mother's madden name are hardly ever needed.

colsten

All the details needed to raid one account, allegedly containing £11,000, were for sale for £2,879.

:rotfl::rotfl: which fraudster would be stupid enough to sell bank details for £2,879 if they can get £11,000?

But it's in the Daily Mail, so it must be true.

Kim_13

colsten wrote: »

:rotfl::rotfl: which fraudster would be stupid enough to sell bank details for £2,879 if they can get £11,000?

But it's in the Daily Mail, so it must be true.

Would they get a lighter punishment if caught for selling the details as opposed to raiding the account themselves? They might also think they're less likely to be caught doing what they're doing than actually making payments out of a hacked account.

grumbler

colsten wrote: »

:rotfl::rotfl: which fraudster would be stupid enough to sell bank details for £2,879 if they can get £11,000?

But it's in the Daily Mail, so it must be true.

Laundering stolen money is far more difficult and traceable business than selling stolen details.