The basic rule of personal security has changed little since ancient times: A person’s home — or hut, cottage, hovel or flat — is that person’s castle, the main location where relatives and valuables are secured from nefarious forces outside the door. Get the Full...
Paytm, the leading digital wallet company in India with more than 230 million customers, has reportedly shared the personal data of users with the Indian government. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS...
U.S. authorities said Friday (May 25) that Russian hackers had “compromised hundreds of thousands of home and office routers and could collect user information or shut down network traffic,” according to a report from Reuters. The new follows warnings earlier this week about a potential...
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is dismantling a “large network of hacked routers and storage devices” that could have enabled a “massive cyberattack,” according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy...
As the age of GDPR dawns, consumers have the power to ask that their info be erased. Firms are ready or not, and Trulioo GM Zac Cohen weighs in on how fraud may find different conduits, where the bad guys, gains ill gotten, wipe the...
In the May Digital Identity Tracker, get the latest news and trends in the digital identity space, including a provider directory of the top players and an interview with Ultan O’Carroll, assistant commissioner of Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner, on the consequences of GDPR non-compliance.
South Africa, following a massive breach in October 2017, suffered another attack, with the personal records of 934,000 South Africans being leaked. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional...
As the speed of payments increases around the world, the potential scope of fraud shifts to targets beyond cards. Criminals are taking advantage of the global spread of real-time digital transactions to con chief financial officers, invoice managers and the like, hoping to steal massive...
Cyberattacks on American financial institutions are at an all-time high, with more and more cybercriminals eyeing consumers’ financial data and other sensitive information. A February 2018 study from the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis found that 75 percent of American financial institutions incurred losses due to...