February 10, 2020
DOJ Indicts Four Chinese Army Spies For Equifax Hack
Federal prosecutors charged four Chinese intelligence officers on Monday (Feb. 10) with the 2017 cyberattack on credit reporting giant Equifax, which was one of the largest data breaches in history,...
December 27, 2019
Wawa C-Store Chain Sued Over Malware Attack
Multiple lawsuits seeking class action status have been filed in Philadelphia over a data breach at Wawa convenience stores, which affected 850 locations along the East Coast of the U.S.,...
December 23, 2019
Why Changes Are Slow In Coming To Legal Disbursements
Businesses and government institutions are adapting to instant payments as more consumers are requesting them. The latest PYMNTS Disbursement Satisfaction Report revealed that more than 24 percent of government disbursements...
November 06, 2019
Data Breach Impacts 4.2M Members Of Canadian Cooperative
The Canadian cooperative Desjardins Group has revealed that a data breach impacted all its 4.2 million members. The incident was first discovered in June. So far, there is one suspect...
October 29, 2019
Koyo FinTech Raises $4.9M To Assist Underbanked UK Borrowers
FinTech startup Koyo, which uses Open Banking to offer loans to underbanked U.K. borrowers, announced that it has raised $4.9 million in funding. The round, a mixture of debt and...
October 21, 2019
Ten Years Of Payments Innovation And Reinvention
The mood in the air at the start of the 2010s was different from the one that preceded the start of the 2000s. The shift from 1999 to 2000 was...
October 05, 2019
Why Libraries Are Giving Up On Late Fees
It has happened to all but the most organized among us. We’re minding our own business, cleaning out a closet or reorganizing the bookshelf, when it suddenly thrusts itself upon us....
August 08, 2019
Can Less Digital Security Actually Be More Secure?
What was the color of the car you owned in 2005? Still remember it? Probably not. But you can bet someone knows — that someone being a fraudster. And that...
August 07, 2019
How The U.S. Government Sets The Benchmark For Digital ID...
Knowledge-based authentication is a popular choice among merchants and FIs for convenient digital ID verification – but with data breaches becoming a regular occurrence, reliance on KBA can cost big....