The total number of account takeover attempts reported byfinancial institutions has more than tripled since 2009, accordingto survey results from the Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center.
|The second Account Takeover Survey from FS-ISAC's AccountTakeover Task Force found that financial institutions reported 87account takeover attempts in 2009, 239 in 2010 and 314 annualizedin 2011.
|The survey, conducted by the American Bankers Association,questioned 100 financial services firms for the entire years of2009 and 2010, and for the first half of 2011.
|FS-ISAC shared several positive results as well: the percentageof account takeover cases in which monetary transactions werecreated and funds exited the financial institution decreased from70% in 2009 to 32% in 2010 and 2011.
|The percentage of account takeover cases that were halted beforefunds left the financial institution increased from 24% in 2009 to44% in 2010 and fell slightly to 41% in 2011.
|Actual dollar loss amounts stabilized for financial institutionsand dropped for customers in the two-and-a-half-year time period,FS-ISAC said. The amount reported for financial institutionsfluctuated from about $732,000 in 2009 to $3.1 million in 2010 to$777,000 annualized in 2011. Customer losses fell from around$944,000 in 2009 and $1.2 million in 2010 to $490,000 annualized in2011.
|Survey respondents also named their top solutions for reducingaccount takeover fraud. The four highest-ranked solutions werecustomer education, implementation of a new multi-factorauthentication system, cutting off customers' online commercialsystem access in cases of anomalous activity detection, andimproving upon an existing multi-factor authentication system.
|Based in Reston, Va., and founded in 1999, FS-ISAC is anon-profit organization dedicated to combating security threats in the financial services sector.
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Natasha Chilingerian
Natasha Chilingerian has been immersed in the credit union industry for over a decade. She first joined CU Times in 2011 as a freelance writer, and following a two-year hiatus from 2013-2015, during which time she served as a communications specialist for Xceed Financial Credit Union (now Kinecta Federal Credit Union), she re-joined the CU Times team full-time as managing editor. She was promoted to executive editor in 2019. In the earlier days of her career, Chilingerian focused on news and lifestyle journalism, serving as a writer and editor for numerous regional publications in Oregon, Louisiana, South Carolina and the San Francisco Bay Area. In addition, she holds experience in marketing copywriting for companies in the finance and technology space. At CU Times, she covers People and Community news, cybersecurity, fintech partnerships, marketing, workplace culture, leadership, DEI, branch strategies, digital banking and more. She currently works remotely and splits her time between Southern California and Portland, Ore.
