Rubrik, an IT security and cloud data management company, has suffered a massive data leak. The company pulled the server offline on...
Real-time access to data is a driving force behind enterprise modernization. It is, in part, why businesses are digitizing and adopting technology,...
Amazon has been heavily courting some direct-to-consumer (DTC) brands – inviting them to its headquarters, paying for dinner and letting them fill...
An Austrian lawyer has filed a complaint against eight tech giants, including Amazon, Apple, Netflix, Spotify and You Tube, for failing to...
Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) has introduced new legislation that would create federal standards of privacy protection for companies like Facebook, Amazon, and...
Creating the correctly personalized in-store experience is much easier said than done in most cases – consumers want salespeople who are knowledgeable...
The Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh announced Tuesday (Jan. 8) that his office, as well as 42 other state attorney generals, have settled...
With the holiday shopping season in the rear view, retailers across the globe are tallying up their wins and losses. While the...
Following reports of its data breach last year, Marriott said on Friday (Jan. 4) that the total number of guest records involved...
A new study has revealed that retailers will lose around $130 billion in digital CNP (Card-not-Present) fraud between 2018 and 2023. Juniper...
Chinese hackers gained access to clients of huge American corporations, according to a report from Reuters. The hackers, working for China’s Ministry...
Computing power is dirt cheap, thanks to cloud infrastructure. Jurisdiction is always a few steps behind, though — who is really going...
Amazon is cracking down on seller scams and has fired employees in the U.S. and India as a result. According to a...
After one of the largest data breaches in history, affecting an estimated 500 million guests, Marriott International Chief Financial Officer Leeny Oberg...
In what may be among the largest data breaches in history, Marriott International said Friday morning (Nov. 30) that as many as...
Dell announced that it reset passwords for all accounts on its online electronics store after it stopped hackers from trying to steal customer...
In what it described as a “technical error,” Amazon confirmed Wednesday (Nov. 21) that some of its customer names and emails have...
Brighterion CEO Akli Adjaoute says there’s only one measure of AI’s true potential: When the tech is adaptive enough to understand that...
Nordstrom has suffered a data breach that exposed employee names, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, checking account and routing numbers, salaries...
For digitally native brands moving from the web to brick and mortar, startups are providing a platform to help with the transition....
HSBC, the U.K. bank, disclosed on Tuesday (Nov. 6) that some of its U.S. customers had their accounts hacked in October. Reuters, citing...
The Radisson Hotel Group suffered a data breach that impacted its loyalty and rewards program customers, reported ZDNet. According to a report...
Instant onboarding — the ability for a merchant to complete a one-page digital application, then instantly process payments — has, more or less, been heralded as the best thing...
In the latest Digital Fraud Tracker Deep Dive, PYMNTS examines the authentication challenges posed by PSD2, GDPR and other data sharing initiatives.
Following a data breach at learning platform Lynda in 2016, two hackers were indicted in Florida this month on charges of extortion...
Using overhead cameras, scanners and weight sensors to track customers in-store may be the future of physical retail, but what starts as...
Guardian Mobile Firewall, the new smart firewall app that is currently in a closed beta test, will be made available soon, filtering...
When it comes to the customer experience, Denise Leleux looks through multiple lenses. The former Tesla executive, who AvidXchange recently hired as...
JPMorgan Chase & Co. has inked a data sharing deal with Plaid Inc., the FinTech that connects banks with financial technology applications. Bloomberg, citing the...
Consumers go on a lot of different types of digital journeys in a day — they might shop online, do some banking,...
For QSRs, offering mobile order-ahead can be a double-edged sword. While it's critical to boosting sales, it also comes with the expense...
A new study has found that most consumers don’t understand just how vulnerable their Personally Identifiable Information (PII) is on the internet....
Apple is launching a portal that enables customers to find out what kind of data the company has kept on them. The...
The nation’s second-largest health insurer will pay the government a record $16 million due to a data breach and cyberattack that exposed...
Navionics, an Italian company that manufactures electronic navigational charts for boating, was the victim of customer data breach that exposed hundreds of...
Tesco Bank agreed on Monday (Oct. 1) to pay £16.4m in a settlement with the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) due to a cyberattack...
After coming across a breach earlier in the week, Facebook said on Friday (Sept. 28) that roughly 50 million of its users...
Retailers are rolling out new ways for consumers to look for items online. Forever 21, in particular, is moving beyond text-based online...
Chegg, a technology giant specializing in textbook rental, suffered a data breach affecting around 40 million customers. According to CNBC, Chegg’s shares fell...
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra and San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón announced on Wednesday (Sept. 26) that they have reached a...
Financial services advisory firm Enterprise Engineering is spinning off a new company to link banks and financial institutions with data management tools....
Adobe, Microsoft and SAP announced on Monday (Sept. 24) the introduction of the Open Data Initiative at the Microsoft Ignite conference being...
There are many things that jump out at the shopper at the new MATCHESFASHION.com location in London’s Mayfair. The space has been...
RiskIQ, the security firm, told outlets on Tuesday (Sept. 11) that the data breach at British Airways was due to credit card skimming...
To take on apps that don’t give users information on the use of their personal data, Apple is introducing a new requirement:...
Fiserv recently had to fix a weakness in its web platform that provided non-actionable event messages for a small number of customers....
The personal information of 130 million hotel guests might be sold on the dark web for eight bitcoins, which are currently worth...
Executives at PayPal are deciding whether they should remove the option to post and view public transactions on Venmo. According to Bloomberg,...
The European Union (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into effect in May, but most businesses in the region still aren’t...
Comcast Xfinity, the cable company, exposed partial home addresses and Social Security numbers of millions of customers, reported BuzzFeed News. Citing Ryan...