1.5 million exposed in RBS WorldPay Breach
Fashionably late, as the who’s who laws require, electronic payment services firm RBS WorldPay has admitted a breach that exposed 1.5 million payroll and gift card holders exposed to fraud and identity theft. The breach was caused by a group of hackers finding their way to the RBS network and accessing about 1.1 million social security records, along with other private details, reports The Register.
RBS disclosed the breach to law enforcement and regulators on November 10, but waited untill December 23rd to also let those affected know their private data was at risk. Great Christmas gift idea! Yet the company pledges strong commitment to prevent any fraud or identity theft attempts and offers 12 months complimentary membership to a credit monitoring service toall those whose personal information has been exposed by the hackers. Does this mean they will also take a good look at everything going on in their customer’s accounts between November 10 and December 23? 100 payroll cards have already been misused as a result of the breach, but have been deactivated since. We hope the toll does not go up.
