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So far, only information from the company’s user account database was leaked, which included details like email addresses, usernames and encrypted passwords for accounts that were created between 2008 and November of 2013. Currently, the company said it has found no evidence that there were any unauthorized logins or wrongdoing.

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JULY 25, 2019

Customers have varying banking needs, but the global fraud phenomenon tends to have equal impacts. Challengers see fraud protection as especially important, particularly as they attempt to ween customers away from legacy FIs and their own nimbler FinTech competitors. Bringing a global fraud approach to a new local market.

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MAY 5, 2020

A little-known Puerto Rican company, Bitcoin Manipulation Abatement (BMA), has filed a lawsuit against Ripple , accusing the blockchain firm of breaking rules when it ran a recent securities sale, CoinDesk reported. billion XRP sale with the relevant authorities. billion sale now is more than it had in any assets otherwise.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Adobe is reportedly only paying $1 million over a lawsuit that has to deal with its data breach back in 2013 that put the payment records of around 38 million at risk. According to Krebs on Security , the $1 million goes to settle a lawsuit by 15 attorney generals stemming from that data breach.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2019

So much of the focus on fraud these days involves exploiting holes in software, hacking into systems to steal personal information and payment data, or otherwise using digital methods in heists. But recent news involving “death-spiral financing” reminds us that fraud is still conducted in other, relatively old-fashioned ways.

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MARCH 17, 2016

The scope of the December 2013 breach remains undisclosed at this time. Amex’s letter offered up various tips for account security and encouraged customers to sign up for instant notifications of potential suspicious activity. All cardholders are encouraged to review their statements, particularly in the next 12-24 months.

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AUGUST 21, 2020

But] we’ve been around since 2013 … and we’ve been growing year over year. The GetMyBoat platform then integrated payments functionality, allowing owners and renters anywhere in the world to transact securely — often updating cross-border payments issues that have been a bane of the modern boat-renting world.

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MARCH 10, 2017

Earlier this year, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration reported that there was a reduction in the number of fraudulent tax returns identified between 2013 and 2015. What’s Next In Tax Fraud. As of February, the number of mentions in 2017 so far was already over 40 percent of the 2016 total. But that’s not all.

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MARCH 1, 2019

If preventative measures aren’t taken, however, faster payments could open the door to more fraud and cyberattacks. Fraud opportunities. Rapid, irreversible payments limit the time FIs have to conduct fraud checks before clearing payments, increasing the risks of fraud and cyberattacks. Security strategies.

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MAY 12, 2017

speaks to the growing risk of identity fraud and its detrimental effect on consumer confidence. In the study, the organizations found that the number of identity fraud victims had risen to 15.4 percent increase in identity fraud victims since 2011, when 11.6 FBI Sees Wire Fraud Via Email Grow In 2016. million in the U.S.

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JUNE 15, 2016

The FBI is warning about the increasing risk of wire transfer fraud. As part of its newly launched public awareness campaign on wire transfer fraud, the FBI provided tips to help companies detect and fight the threats. Billion | The amount hackers have attempted to steal from businesses using wire fraud between October 2013-May 2016.

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DECEMBER 11, 2020

As goes banking, so goes fraud. PYMNTS December 2020 AML/KYC Tracker® done in collaboration with Trulioo probes the heightened fraud climate accompanying the mobile-digital shift, zeroing in on key aspects of prevailing in the digital fraud wars. It has ever been thus.

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MARCH 12, 2020

Each sector and country encounters different fraud types that providers must be ready to detect and thwart. In a recent interview with PYMNTS, he discussed tailoring fraud-fighting to merchants’ needs and how attention to local trends primes processors to fight money laundering and misbehavior when taking their operations global. .

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JANUARY 15, 2021

These violations, said FinCEN, “caused millions of dollars in suspicious transactions to go unreported in a timely and accurate manner, including proceeds connected to organized crime, tax evasion, fraud, and other financial crimes laundered through the bank into the U.S. financial system.”.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Hamilton left a complaint by investors in place, which alleged that Ripple had been selling unregistered securities. The judge disagreed with the complaint by Ripple that the lawsuit wasn’t timely because it was filed five years after XRP was offered in 2013. XRP fell 8.2

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OCTOBER 2, 2019

He is accused of setting up and operating Darkode, a black marketplace that operated between 2008 and 2013, as well as creating and deploying Mariposa, one of the largest botnets. And Samsung-backed Blocko is now in the UAE after it secured funding in Asia Pacific and Europe.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2020

While the business email compromise (BEC) scam is a global pain point for businesses, this week's B2B Data Digest looks at the latest figures in B2B payments fraud and finds BEC heating up in one particular region: Australia and New Zealand. Another business, homewares company Sage and Clare, was out $7,360 after falling for such fraud.

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MAY 10, 2016

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is running a security check on mobile devices. The agency announced yesterday (May 9) that it has issued orders to eight mobile device manufacturers to share with the FTC the details about their particular processes in issuing security updates in instances when their smartphones, tablets, et al.,

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NOVEMBER 15, 2016

New York City has a new fighting chance against the proliferation of cyber fraud in the form of a state-of-the-art, $10 million digital crime laboratory. Security solutions provider RSA estimates a 173 percent increase in cases of mobile fraud worldwide between 2013 and 2015. is to the whims of cybercriminals.

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MAY 8, 2017

Cyber wire fraud via email had increased during the last seven months of last year, according to a new warning from the Federal Bureau of Investigation. billion from October of 2013 through December of 2016. billion from October of 2013 through December of 2016. Robert Holmes, a security professional for Proofpoint Inc.

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MAY 16, 2018

The report recommends a collaborative approach among information security and compliance team members. Also noted by the site, Ernst & Young’s Global Fraud Survey has set its sights on compliance efforts. Local news stories show that fraud – across payroll schemes and otherwise – remains alive and well across the globe.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

While cooperating in all aspects of the investigation, we are devoting our utmost efforts to procedures for securing/recovering the leaked funds.”. billion has been lost to the Business Email Compromise scam between 2013 and 2018. Toyota said it would disclose amendments to its March 2020 earnings forecast documents if necessary.

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JANUARY 18, 2019

New year, new reason to fear fraud — especially through digital means? As reported late this week in Dark Reading , and as estimated by security research firm Agari , efforts are “ramping up” wherein criminals look to “divert payrolls” of senior executives. There were expenses traced to strip clubs, gambling and even tattoos.

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JANUARY 9, 2019

8) that his office, as well as 42 other state attorney generals, have settled with Neiman Marcus over a 2013 breach of customer payment card data at 77 of the retailer’s stores. The Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh announced Tuesday (Jan. In a press release , the Maryland AG said Neiman Marcus agreed to pay $1.5

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AUGUST 24, 2016

The vulnerability allows an attacker to take over a device’s internet traffic through a TCP connection, enabling secure connections to be exposed in nearly 80 percent of all activated Android devices across the globe. percent of the Android ecosystem,” security firm Lookout explained in a blog post. “We was released in 2013.

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JANUARY 6, 2017

It never takes long for cybercriminals to find new avenues to perpetrate fraud. Fraud On The Line. Criminals are now learning about potential targets and using their lack of security parameters to lull them into providing private information.”. government and has been looked into since 2013. Ad Fraud Takes Center Stage.

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JUNE 7, 2019

Allied Wallet , an online payment provider and a client of Wirecard, settled with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) last month over charges that it helped facilitate fraud and launder money, according to a report by the Financial Times. The relationship between the two entities lasted from 2013 to 2018.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Many consumers do not have funds readily on hand to make big purchases like electronics or furniture and prefer turning to instant loan apps like Affirm , a point-of-sale installment lender established in 2013, rather than going into debt with a bank or credit card provider. Fraud Faces the Machine. What is Affirm?

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DECEMBER 10, 2018

It’s why it’s surprising that sloppy data security hygiene and well-placed bad actors are a bigger security threat to the next generation than hacking technology. 500 billion: The approximate value of transactions processed by Braintree since being acquired by PayPal in 2013.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

The cybersecurity world is witnessing a potentially new, dangerous threat: according to insurance firm Euler Hermes, one of its corporates fell victim to cyber fraud after attackers used sophisticated artificial intelligence (AI) technology to impersonate the firm’s chief executive officer by mimicking his voice on the phone.

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DECEMBER 3, 2018

In December of 2013, Target was breached. That breach cost then- CEO Gregg Steinhafel his job, and became the poster child for EMV and the need to lock down payment card security to protect against counterfeit fraud at the physical point of sale. What’s Relevant in Retail.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

With the Same Day ACH rollout coming in just two weeks and other faster payments initiatives taking off, financial institutions are taking significant steps to ensure the transition to a faster processing environment, including improving their payment security platforms to keep fraudsters at bay. The Mountain View, Calif.-based

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MAY 2, 2019

That’s according to Onapsis, the security firm, which told Reuters it found new ways to exploit weaknesses in systems that weren’t patched correctly. Despite the fact that SAP issued information on how to correctly patch the vulnerability in 2009 and 2013, around 90 percent of affected SAP systems haven’t been secured.

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OCTOBER 22, 2018

The Direct Enrollment pathway, first launched in 2013, allows insurance agents and brokers to assist consumers with applications for coverage in the FFE. Our number one priority is the safety and security of the Americans we serve. CMS said that it believes about 75,000 individuals’ files were accessed via the data breach.

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AUGUST 17, 2018

To that end, a finance platform based in Switzerland, Advanon, has grappled with fraud, as reported by p2p-banking.com. The invoices were then financed by 78 private investors – and the fraud resulted in ill-gotten gains worth about two million euros. 1 of 2013 and the end of March 2018.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Wells Fargo Advisors and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) reached a settlement this week resolving charges that the bank dropped the ball in reporting suspect activities pertaining to money laundering for several years. According to a MarketWatch report published Tuesday (Nov.

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MARCH 26, 2020

The company said it was looking into a “security incident” that involved unauthorized access with a third-party company. Threat Analyst Brett Callow, who works at a different security firm called Emsisoft, said the incident in question came from Maze, a ransomware group. Zack did not say anything beyond that.

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