Corporate travel manager CWT paid $4.5 million worth of bitcoin in ransom this week to hackers who said they seized control of 30,000 company computers and two terabytes of data, Reuters reported on Friday (July 31). Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock...
Twitter continues to inform users about its investigation into a massive security breach two weeks ago when hackers seized control of the celebrity accounts of Joe Biden, Kim Kardashian, Bill Gates and dozens of other A-listers. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock...
National Payments Corp. of India (NPCI), the nation’s payments processor, uncovered more than three dozen security risks last year, Reuters reported. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins...
Germany is seeking help from Russia to help locate missing Wirecard executive Jan Marsalek, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required....
German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz and Economy Minister Peter Altmaier faced hours of questioning by Parliament Wednesday (July 29) over allegations they failed to prevent the Wirecard AG accounting scandal. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free...
SoftBank Group Corp., the Tokyo-based multinational conglomerate that owns stakes in technology and finance companies, invested $1 billion in Wirecard AG last year in a move that quieted questions about the German payment processing firm. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited...
When one stops to consider how fast merchants pivoted to offer their consumers digitally-enriched shopping journeys and how many things customers can do now that they couldn’t as recently as January, it’s pretty staggering. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article...
Long before alarm bells sounded at Wirecard AG, the now-insolvent German payments processing company, there were red flags. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to...
Hackers boasting that they have “cracked” some of the hashed passwords stolen from digital banking aggregator Dave may be one of the most disturbing elements to emerge from the cyberheist that exposed the private information of millions of users, a top expert notes. Get the...
