United Parcel Service said that 51 of its franchised UPS Stores suffered a payments-related data breach affecting about 105,000 payment transactions between January and August, according to the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday (Aug. 20). Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this...
In the wake of the payments-related data breach at the Supervalu grocery chain, the company has been hit with a class-action lawsuit, Bank Info Security reported. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS...
Square will not require retailers to buy a new version of its Square Stand point-of-sale hardware for next year’s U.S. transition to supporting EMV “chip and PIN” cards, the company said in a blog post on Wednesday (Aug. 20). Get the Full Story Complete the...
“Breaches are pretty much a daily occurrence now,” says Jonathan Hancock, Director of Fraud Management Solutions for TSYS, “and consumers who haven’t been hit personally are numb to the news.” But here’s the great irony: When something does happen, consumers blame the retailer, but expect...
EMV is getting real in the US as consumers are now getting chip cards in the mail. But if it’s going to take many years before all merchants are able to accept chip cards and all consumers carry them, why not skip straight EMV and...
The number of jobs on banks’ anti-money laundering teams is up 54 percent in 2014 year-to-year in the U.K. following a string a scandal and heavy fines for British Banks. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free...
Digital security solutions provider Oberthur Technologies (OT) announced today that it has signed an agreement to acquire NagraID Security SA, according to an Oberthur release.
Thirty-two percent of merchants see mobile as riskier than standard e-commerce, up from 24 percent last year, recent statistics show. As retail foot traffic steadily declines and more consumers make purchases via mobile device, online fraud is quickly becoming a standard practice – and presumably...
EBay has been in talks to accept Bitcoin through its Braintree unit, according to a report Thursday (Aug. 14) in The Wall Street Journal. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content —...
