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3.8KSecurity & FraudGIACT On Payments’ $29M Wire Fraud Wake-Up Call
Last week, the U.S. subsidiary of Japan’s largest financial media organization, Nikkei, made headlines for the reason that no firm ever wants:...
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7.8KSecurity & FraudCapOne Back Online After Major Outage
Capital One saw an outage on Friday (Nov. 1) that kept some of its customers from accessing their accounts and direct deposits,...
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2.0KSecurity & FraudAmazon, Google Smart Speakers Could Be Breached By Hackers
Security researchers at SRLabs have discovered a new vulnerability that could leave Google and Amazon smart speakers exposed to hackers. “Through the...
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4.6KSecurity & FraudThe Hidden Fraud That Spells Big Marketplace Losses
Everyone loves a good, free introductory offer: the month of free access to a streaming service, the free lift from a ridesharing...
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2.3KSecurity & FraudFacebook App Investigation Leads To Thousands Of Suspensions
Facebook revealed it has suspended “tens of thousands” of apps due to an investigation into how developers use its members’ data. “We...
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2.3KLegalEx-Google Engineer Charged With Selling Trade Secrets To Uber
Former Google engineer and self-driving pioneer Anthony Levandowski is being charged with stealing closely guarded secrets and selling them to Uber, The...
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3.8KSecurity & FraudHacker Prompts Shutdown Of ECB Website
A European Central Bank (ECB) website has been shut down after a malicious hacking attack infected the site. Reuters is reporting that...
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2.7KSecurity & FraudNew App Pinpoints Card Skimmers On Gas Pumps, ATMs
As credit card skimmers have gotten smarter, they have also gotten easier to detect, thanks to Bluetooth broadcasting that announces the presence...
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8.3KSecurity & FraudNew Strain Of Ransomware Striking US, European Firms
Cyber insurance claims are spiking as a new type of ransomware targets companies across the U.S. and Europe, the The Financial Times...
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3.7KData DiveData Dive, Breaches And Security Blips Edition: KeyBank, Microsoft And Bulgaria
As temperatures nationwide heated up, the world of payments and commerce followed suit. Between the commerce explosion that was the celebration of...
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3.1KSecurity & FraudTech Experts To Visit White House To Discuss Huawei Ban
The U.S. ban on sales to China’s Huawei is expected to be a topic of discussion Monday (July 22) between White House...
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2.9KSecurity & FraudAnother 2.2M Patients’ Data Exposed In AMCA Data Breach
Clinical Pathology Laboratories (CPL) is the latest victim of a data security breach at the billing collections service American Medical Collection Agency...
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3.0KDigital PaymentsP2P Payments Find Fans In The Black Market
Peer-to-peer (P2P) payments continue to gain popularity among consumers, with two of the biggest providers, Zelle and Venmo, reporting ongoing and significant...
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3.6KSecurity & FraudCrypto Regulation To Tighten Scrutiny On Money Laundering
Amid the announcement of a new cryptocurrency – that would be Libra – the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), which operates as...
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2.2KToday In DataSecuring Digital Identities In The Information Age
Phone numbers, email addresses, usernames and other online signifiers have become essential to verification as the world becomes more connected. In B2B news, Visa is launching an end-to-end...
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3.6KNewsVisa-Western Union Deal And Alexa’s Roommate Potential Top The Week’s News
Yes, the weekend has arrived! We don’t know about you, but it was a busy week for PYMNTS, given all the news...
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1.7KPersonnelWells Fargo Could Name Interim CEO As Permanent Replacement
Wells Fargo & Co., the bank still reeling from its fake account scandal, could name interim Chief Executive Allen Parker as its...
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2.7KSecurity & FraudLabCorp Says 7.7M Customers May Have Been Impacted By AMCA Breach
LabCorp, the medical testing company, disclosed Wednesday (June 5) that 7.7 million customers may have been impacted by the data breach that...
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2.6KBank RegulationPost-Baoshang Takeover, China Aims To Reassure Investors
China’s Central Bank said over the weekend that there won’t be any more takeover of banks after the government’s intervention with Baoshang...
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2.3KGoogleDOJ To Open Google Antitrust Probe
The Justice Department is gearing up to launch an investigation into Google to find out if it engaged in antitrust practices. Reuters,...
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2.8KInvestmentsDashlane Raises $100M, Names New CMO
Credential and digital identity management solution company Dashlane announced Thursday (May 30) it raised $110 million in funding and appointed Joy Howard...
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5.2KSecurity & FraudApp Defect May Have Exposed First American Financial Customers’ Data
First American Financial, the real estate title insurance company, may have provided unauthorized access to the financial information of its customers. According...
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3.5KSecurity & FraudFinCEN Calls For Private Sector Innovation
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) is launching an initiative called the FinCEN Innovation Hours Program, as a call to private sector...
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3.1KSecurity & FraudCrypto Diamonds Are For … Never(?)
Charles Ponzi built his eponymous schemes on the promise of profits tied to postage stamps. But ours is a decidedly high-tech world,...
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4.3KSecurity & FraudTruecaller Denies Hack As User Info Emerges On Dark Web
Data from Truecaller, the Swedish caller identity app company, is reportedly being sold in private internet forums, including data on customer phone...
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2.5KRidesharingNY AG, Mayor Launch Inquiries In Taxi Industry Practices
The New York Attorney General’s office and New York Mayor Bill de Blasio have both ordered investigations into the practices of the...
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2.6KGoogleGoogle Cuts Ties With Huawei
Google is halting a business relationship with Huawei, the Chinese telecommunications company, in what is seen as a blow to the company...
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6.1KSecurity & FraudNY Seizes Municipal Credit Union After Embezzlement
New York’s Department of Financial Services seized Municipal Credit Union, New York’s oldest credit union, on Friday (May 17), saying it is...
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4.2KSecurity & FraudRegulators Investigate China’s Ex-Securities Regulator
Liu Shiyu, the former head of China’s securities regulator, is being investigated for violating anti-corruption laws. According to a report in Reuters...
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2.6KRegulationEU Fines Banks Billions For Manipulating Currency Prices
The European Union has slapped Barclays, RBS, Citigroup, JPMorgan and MUFG with a €1.07bn fine over allegations that they worked together to manipulate...
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3.0KSecurity & FraudFormer JPMorgan Asia Executive Charged In Hiring Scandal
A former JPMorgan Chase executive was charged in Hong Kong for bribing an executive of another firm by offering his son a...
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6.2KSecurity & FraudJapan’s Uniqlo Hacked, 460K Accounts Compromised
Japan’s Fast Retailing, the company that owns the Uniqlo retail chain, said that data from upwards of 460,000 customer accounts was compromised...
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3.0KFacebookFacebook Could Face 20-Year Government Oversight As Part Of Settlement
Facebook could face two decades of oversight as part of an agreement with the U.S. government. According to a report in Reuters...
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4.6KSecurity & FraudDenmark’s Ex-Finance Regulator Charged In Money Laundering Scandal
Henrik Ramlau-Hansen, the former chair of Denmark’s financial regulator and former Danske Bank finance director, has been charged by Danish economic prosecutors....
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5.0KSecurity & FraudUS Crypto Investor Awarded $75M In Fraud Suit
Michael Terpin, an entrepreneur based in the U.S. and an investor in cryptocurrency, won $75.8 million in a court judgment over a...
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3.5KSecurity & FraudFitch: AML Shortcomings Impact Bank Credit Ratings
As part of a broader look at environmental, social and governance factors on credit scores, Fitch Group Inc. noted that shortcomings in...
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4.3KReal EstateMoney Laundering Causes Rising Canadian Home Prices
Home prices increased about 5 percent in Canadian province British Columbia last year thanks to money laundering. According to a report in The...
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3.3KSecurity & FraudSamsung Internal Coding Projects Leaked Data
Dozens of internal coding projects being worked on by Samsung engineers were reportedly leaking source code, credentials and keys because of a...
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7.2KSecurity & FraudHackers Net $41M In Binance Bitcoin Heist
Binance, one of the biggest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world, was reportedly hacked — with the bad guys stealing bitcoin valued at...
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4.5KSecurity & FraudEx-Goldman Banker Extradited To US On 1MDB Charges
A former Goldman Sachs banker in Malaysia has been extradited to the U.S. to face charges stemming from the scandal at the...
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2.9KBank RegulationWells Ups Estimates Of Legal Losses To $3.1B
Wells Fargo, the embattled national bank, is reportedly upping the money it may lose from legal actions, reported The Wall Street Journal....
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2.7KFacebookFTC Split On Size, Scope Of Facebook Fine
With Facebook and the Federal Trade Commission in the final stages of settlement talks, disagreements between the five-member FTC panel are complicating...
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3.3KSecurity & FraudSAP Customers Vulnerable To Hacking?
As many as 50,000 companies running software by SAP could face a bigger risk of being hacked because a years-old vulnerability hasn’t...
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2.6KFacebookFacebook To Create Privacy Committee As Part Of FTC Settlement
Facebook is in discussions with the Federal Trade Commission over a settlement that would include appointing privacy-focused executives in the C-suite. Politico,...
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2.3KSecurity & FraudEU Watchdog Calls For Money Laundering Reform
The European Banking Authority is facing calls from the financial regulation head in Europe to improve its money laundering safeguards after opting...
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3.1KSubscriptionsSinemia Shuts Down US Operations Amid Lawsuits
Sinemia, the movie theater subscription service that tried to take a page from MoviePass, is shuttering U.S. operations. The company, which had...
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4.1KBitcoinBitcoin Daily: Hackers Use Malware To Generate Crypto; Disney Could Acquire Stakes In Crypto Exchanges
Hackers are still using classified exploits built by the National Security Agency two years after they were stolen, this time to mine...
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5.5KAlternative FinancesProsper Fined $3M By SEC For Overstating Returns
The Securities and Exchange Commission announced late last week that Prosper, the online lender, has agreed to pay a $3 million fine...
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6.5KSecurity & FraudMicrosoft Admits Breach Of Web-Based Email Accounts
Microsoft, the Redmond, Washington software giant, confirmed to reporters over the weekend that its web-based email services were hacked. According to reports citing...
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4.6KSecurity & FraudUK Bank TSB Will Issue Refunds To Fraud Victims
U.K. bank TSB said it would refund its 5.2 million customers who were the victims of an online fraud scam. According to...
