News

ABA suffers data breach that compromises over 6000 records

Monday 5 October 2015 00:15 CET | News

The American Bankers Association (ABA), a financial industry trade group, has been breached and thousands of members’ personal information had been compromised.

The association said that the attack affected users of its website’s shopping cart tool, which is mostly used by members making purchases or registering for events through aba.com. In total, the association counts 6,400 records (usernames and passwords) as having been compromised.

The association said that the breach appears to be confined to its shopping cart tool.


Free Headlines in your E-mail

Every day we send out a free e-mail with the most important headlines of the last 24 hours.

Subscribe now

Keywords: data breaches, online security, web fraud, biometrics, online authentication, digital identity, The American Bankers Association
Categories: Fraud & Financial Crime
Companies:
Countries: World
This article is part of category

Fraud & Financial Crime






Industry Events