Data Breaches

Google Employee Data Exposed During Data Breach, Law Firm Says
Google Employee Data Exposed During Data Breach, Law Firm Says
October 26, 2020  |  Cybersecurity

Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, an immigration law firm, has reported a data breach that could involve personal information from current and former Google...

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UK Watchdog Hits British Airways With $25.8M Fine Over Data Breach
UK Watchdog Hits British Airways With $25.8M Fine Over Data Breach
October 16, 2020  |  Cybersecurity

British Airways (BA) must pay a $25.8 million fine for lacking the proper security measures that might have prevented a hacker in 2018 from exposing...

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Report: Hackers Hit 2,000 Robinhood Accounts
Report: Hackers Hit 2,000 Robinhood Accounts
October 15, 2020  |  Cybersecurity

A recent hack compromised around 2,000 Robinhood Markets accounts, suggesting the attacks were more widespread than previously realized, Bloomberg reported. After the attack last week,...

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Today In Payments: China Trials Digital Yuan By Giving Away $1.5M; EU Puts 20 Firms On Regulatory Hit List
Today In Payments: China Trials Digital Yuan By Giving Away $1.5M; EU Puts 20 Firms...
October 12, 2020  |  News

In today’s top news, China is giving away $1.5 million to test the digital yuan, and the EU is compiling a list of 20 tech...

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Deep Dive: Why The Pandemic Is Pushing MENA Regulators To Upgrade Open Banking, Privacy Laws
Deep Dive: Why The Pandemic Is Pushing MENA Regulators To Upgrade Open Banking, Privacy Laws
September 30, 2020  |  Bank Regulation

Consumers and businesses have been moving online in recent years, and regulators from the European Union to the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region...

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Deep Dive: How Identity Fraud Targets Banks
Deep Dive: How Identity Fraud Targets Banks
September 25, 2020  |  Fraud Prevention

Fraudsters leverage an array of schemes to conduct financial crimes, including digital methods like botnets and brute force hacks as well as old-school ones like...

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Uncovering The Lessons In A Third-Party Cyberattack
Uncovering The Lessons In A Third-Party Cyberattack
September 14, 2020  |  B2B Payments

B2B Software-as-a-Service company Blackbaud recently notified its customers that in February of this year it fell victim to a ransomware attack and was not aware...

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Grab Fined For Privacy Breach For The Fourth Time
Grab Fined For Privacy Breach For The Fourth Time
September 13, 2020  |  Cybersecurity

GrabCar, a unit of Grab Holdings, a Singapore-based ridesharing company, has been issued a $10,000 Singapore dollar ($7,311) fine for a personal data breach, Bloomberg...

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China To Roll Out Global Data Security Standards
China To Roll Out Global Data Security Standards
September 07, 2020  |  Cybersecurity

China is debuting a new initiative to set worldwide standards for data security, according to a new report from The Wall Street Journal (WSJ). The...

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