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Optimal Payments Launches Breach Investigation
News // October 30, 2015

U.K. digital wallet company Optimal Payments is investigating reports that the personal data of customers was compromised and made available on a public domain, Reuters reported yesterday (Oct. 29). Optimal Payments stated that the alleged data breaches may have impacted two of its units dating...

Optimal Payments’ Billion Dollar Bet On Online Gaming
International // March 24, 2015

Optimal Payments and Skrill Group, two of the U.K.’s biggest digital wallet companies, are merging in a $1.2 billion deal that will create a combined company with $697 million in revenue, Reuters reported on Monday (March 23). The deal will combine Optimal’s Neteller digital payment...

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Paysafe’s Current Accounts Safe From Past Breach

December 01, 2015
British mobile payments company Paysafe announced that the two instances of hacks, which stole data from its 7.8 million accounts, could not affect its current customer accounts. The 2010 attack on the databases of Paysafe’s subsidiary, NETELLER, and the 2009 attack on Skrill — previously known as Moneybookers and now owned by Paysafe — affected limited account details of […]

Optimal Payments Launches Breach Investigation

October 30, 2015
U.K. digital wallet company Optimal Payments is investigating reports that the personal data of customers was compromised and made available on a public domain, Reuters reported yesterday (Oct. 29). Optimal...

Optimal Payments’ Billion Dollar Bet On Online Gaming

March 24, 2015
Optimal Payments and Skrill Group, two of the U.K.’s biggest digital wallet companies, are merging in a $1.2 billion deal that will create a combined company with $697 million in...