September 18, 2017
Transitions Edition: Venmo, Equifax and Nordstrom
Baseball season is winding down as the playoffs loom (Go Red Sox), football season is warming up (Go Pats) and the transition to fall is upon us. Warm gives...
September 15, 2017
Democrats Introduce Credit Freeze Bill In Response To Equifax Leak
After the Equifax data breach that exposed the personal information of around 143 million consumers, Democrats have introduced a bill to give consumers the ability to freeze their credit for...
September 15, 2017
Equifax Hack May Hinder Ant Financial’s Chances Of Buying MoneyGram
As a multi-agency advisory panel in the Trump Administration comes to the end of its review of Ant Financial’s acquisition of MoneyGram, the possibility of data theft by foreign countries...
September 15, 2017
FTC Launches Investigation Into Equifax Breach
The Federal Trade Commission has launched an investigation into the data breach at Equifax that impacted 143 million consumers. According to a news report in Reuters, the move on the...
September 15, 2017
Visa And Mastercard Warn Of 200K Vulnerable Credit Cards From...
Visa and Mastercard are warning financial institutions across the country that more than 200,000 credit cards were compromised during the Equifax hack. KrebsOnSecurity broke the news of the confidential alerts,...
September 14, 2017
Equifax CEO Vows To Make Changes, Protect Consumers In Wake...
Equifax Security chairman and chief executive officer Richard Smith recently penned an Oped in USA Today in which he vowed to provide protections to everyone who was impacted by a...
September 14, 2017
Synthetic Identity Theft On The Rise
A new type of credit card fraud is emerging, dubbed “synthetic identity theft.” In instances of synthetic identity theft, cybercriminals create new identities to credit card accounts instead of stealing...
September 13, 2017
Today In Data: Equifax’s Data Breach
Last week, Equifax disclosed a data breach that could impact 143 million consumers. Based on the company’s investigation, the unauthorized fraudulent access occurred from mid-May through July 2017, Equifax said...
September 13, 2017
Senators Demand FTC Investigation Of Equifax Leak
U.S. senators are calling for a federal investigation into the sale of nearly $2 million in shares of Equifax by company executives after its massive data breach. According to a Reuters...