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I got my first Bank of Ireland phishing email last week, and I have got about three per day since! A typical one looks like this:

Subject: 365 Banking: You are required to confirm your email address
Date: Sun, 04 Oct 2009 20:50:23 +0200
From: Bank of Ireland <accounts@boi.ie>
To: xxx@xxx.xxx

http://www.sp-ad.com/.www.365online.ie/

The url looks really convincing, and I found it quite difficult to explain how to extract the domain name to some non-technical friends.

The page looks really convincing also! I did not visit it myself, but I used an online service to capture a screenshot of it:

Bank of Ireland Phishing Screenshot

The real page can be viewed at https://www.365online.com/.

Tags: Bank of Ireland, Phishing

RTE are reporting that Bank of Ireland has lost a memory stick that contains personal details of almost 900 customers. The full article is Bank of Ireland customer details lost.

This is just the latest incident of Bank of Ireland losing customer details! However, in this case the bank is claiming that the storage of customer details without encryption on a memory stick is a breach of its policies and procedures.

Perhaps Bank of Ireland needs to examine why employees are able to copy sensitive customer details to any memory sticks!

Tags: Bank of Ireland, Encryption, Memory Stick, RTE