“Bank heist! How insiders stole millions and threatened the cybersecurity of more than 12 million South African bank customers.” It’s got all the makings of a made for ...
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Credit Card & Online Fraud
Credit Card & Online Fraud
A large payments database owned by New York mobile payments processor PAAY left millions of credit card and other payments transactions exposed for more than three weeks before ...
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New research from business news site The Manifest shows 15% of US small businesses suffered a hack (7%), virus attack (5%), or data breach (3%) in 2019. The ...
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In a headshaking, tone-deaf move especially during the coronavirus pandemic, the brain trust at Ticketmaster has decided to add to the misery of consumers who bought tickets for ...
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Since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the novel coronavirus outbreak a pandemic on March 11th, new research by TransUnion identified a 23% increase in weekly e-commerce transactions ...
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When it comes to loyalty program fraud, merchants are unprepared, and consumers are uninformed about the risk to their personal information and their hard-earned rewards according to e-commerce ...
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In the run-up to the Super Bowl LIV, iovation released its 2020 iGaming Report, providing an analysis of more than 4 billion online gambling transactions from the past ...
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What do these companies all have in common? British Airways, Ticketmaster, Newegg, Delta Airlines, Sears, Proctor & Gamble, and Macy’s. If you’re in the payments industry, you might ...
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When it comes to online fraud, US Thanksgiving was a turkey for online sellers as online fraud jumped 29% compared to 2018 according to new research from fraud ...
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With Black Friday and Cyber Monday approaching, online sellers are gearing up for the most important sales event of the year. Unfortunately, fraudsters are also gearing up and ...
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