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Bank customers at risk after details are hacked
Customers of many of the world's biggest banks and numerous other companies are being warned to expect fake emails trying to lure them to part with their log-in details, after what could be one of the biggest data breaches of the internet era.
The company at the centre of the incident, a Dallas-based email marketing firm called Epsilon, revealed last Friday that it had been the victim of a computer hacker, but the scale of the breach has only become clear as, one by one, some of the world's largest companies have alerted their customers.
The banks and other firms involved have all said that no customer account details were stolen, only email addresses.
The list of banks affected includes Citigroup, JP Morgan Chase, Capital One Financial and US Bancorp and Barclays' US credit card arm. American retailers involved include Walgreens, Best Buy and Kroger. Customers of Disney's travel business and TiVo, which sells digital video recorders, are also victims.
"Epsilon has assured us that the only information obtained was your name and email address," Barclays Bank of Delaware said in an email to its US credit card customers. "It is possible you may receive spam email messages as a result which could potentially ask you for additional information about your account. Please note, Barclays will never ask you in an email to verify sensitive information such as your full account number, username, password or social security number. Therefore, any email which does so should be treated as suspicious, even if it looks like it comes from Barclays."
The not-for-profit College Board, which administers the SAT admissions tests and has the email addresses of 7 million US students, asked students and parents to be cautious about receiving.....Read more HERE
Personal NOTE: This has actually been ongoing within the last 6-8 months or so, as many onlines banks have been updating their software and publishing in on their website that 'THEY ARE UPGRADING' their internet security.....Again like many - lets tells them where things are, and what we are doing (BANKS YOU MAY AS WELL SEND A GREETING CARD TO THEM WITH AN INVITATION) 'What happend to the good OLD write a letter to tell us?'
If you like to see many different types of e-mail scams requesting for your bank account details perpetrating to be your bank or not? - please click here
An interim report from the Banking Commission due on Monday will not support the total break-up of Britain's biggest banks, the BBC understands. Instead it will favour ring-fencing their risky investment banking operations, so they do not jeopardise the savings of ordinary depositors.
The move will still cause anger at big banks like Barclays, according to BBC business editor Robert Peston.
It means their investment banking units will find it more expensive to borrow.
"I understand that the Commission will recommend that within megabanks like Barclays, HSBC, or Royal Bank of Scotland, new legal barriers - or 'firewalls' - should be constructed," our correspondent said.