fraud

Fraud is intentional deception to secure unfair or unlawful gain, or to deprive a victim of a legal right. Fraud can violate civil law, a criminal law, or it may cause no loss of money, property or legal right but still be an element of another civil or criminal wrong.

Goldman Sachs Says Third-Party Breach May Have Exposed Client Data

Goldman Sachs Says Third-Party Breach May Have Exposed Client Data
Goldman Sachs Says Third-Party Breach May Have Exposed Client Data
December 26, 2025  |  Cybersecurity

The data of some Goldman Sachs clients reportedly may have been exposed due to a cybersecurity incident at one of the bank’s law firms. Goldman Sachs alerted investors...

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2025 Turned Uncertainty From Surprise Into Strategy
2025 Turned Uncertainty From Surprise Into Strategy
December 24, 2025  |  Economy

By year-end, one conclusion from PYMNTS Intelligence’s The Certainty Project series is hard to miss: Uncertainty rarely arrives as a single shock. It compounds, as...

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Scammers Turn Christmas Into a Payments Stress Test
Scammers Turn Christmas Into a Payments Stress Test
December 24, 2025  |  Fraud Prevention

The holiday shopping period compresses weeks of spending into days, multiplies the number of online interactions, and makes consumers and companies vulnerable to fraudsters. That...

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Aflac Says Cybersecurity Incident Involved Personal Information of 22.65 Million People
Aflac Says Cybersecurity Incident Involved Personal Information of 22.65 Million People
December 23, 2025  |  Cybersecurity

Insurance company Aflac said personal information associated with 22.65 million people was impacted by a cybersecurity incident within its U.S. business that the company reported...

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Rental Scams Cost Consumers $65 Million Since 2020
Rental Scams Cost Consumers $65 Million Since 2020
December 23, 2025  |  Fraud Prevention

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) says rental scams have cost consumers $65 million since 2020. That’s according to a new analysis from the FTC released...

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ServiceNow to Acquire Armis to Create Cybersecurity Solution for AI Era
ServiceNow to Acquire Armis to Create Cybersecurity Solution for AI Era
December 23, 2025  |  Partnerships

ServiceNow plans to acquire Armis for $7.75 billion in cash and create a unified, end-to-end security exposure and operations stack. The stack will cover all...

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Real-Time Payments Stress-Test Bank Infrastructure
Real-Time Payments Stress-Test Bank Infrastructure
December 23, 2025  |  Real-Time Payments

Watch more: Need to Know: i2c’s Marjorie Tart Real-time payments are becoming a baseline expectation in a digital economy where consumers and businesses want money...

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Tariffs Expose Who Really Knows Their Suppliers
Tariffs Expose Who Really Knows Their Suppliers
December 22, 2025  |  Supply Chain

The year 2025 rewrote the realities of global trade in many ways. Supply chain choke points swelled, tariffs shifted long-standing buyer-supplier relationships, and finance and...

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