Data Breaches

Today In Payments: China Trials Digital Yuan By Giving Away $1.5M; EU Puts 20 Firms On Regulatory Hit List
Today In Payments: China Trials Digital Yuan By Giving Away $1.5M; EU Puts 20 Firms...
October 12, 2020  |  News

In today’s top news, China is giving away $1.5 million to test the digital yuan, and the EU is compiling a list of 20 tech...

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Deep Dive: Why The Pandemic Is Pushing MENA Regulators To Upgrade Open Banking, Privacy Laws
Deep Dive: Why The Pandemic Is Pushing MENA Regulators To Upgrade Open Banking, Privacy Laws
September 30, 2020  |  Bank Regulation

Consumers and businesses have been moving online in recent years, and regulators from the European Union to the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region...

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Deep Dive: How Identity Fraud Targets Banks
Deep Dive: How Identity Fraud Targets Banks
September 25, 2020  |  Fraud Prevention

Fraudsters leverage an array of schemes to conduct financial crimes, including digital methods like botnets and brute force hacks as well as old-school ones like...

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Uncovering The Lessons In A Third-Party Cyberattack
Uncovering The Lessons In A Third-Party Cyberattack
September 14, 2020  |  B2B Payments

B2B Software-as-a-Service company Blackbaud recently notified its customers that in February of this year it fell victim to a ransomware attack and was not aware...

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Grab Fined For Privacy Breach For The Fourth Time
Grab Fined For Privacy Breach For The Fourth Time
September 13, 2020  |  Security & Fraud

GrabCar, a unit of Grab Holdings, a Singapore-based ridesharing company, has been issued a $10,000 Singapore dollar ($7,311) fine for a personal data breach, Bloomberg...

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China To Roll Out Global Data Security Standards
China To Roll Out Global Data Security Standards
September 07, 2020  |  Security & Fraud

China is debuting a new initiative to set worldwide standards for data security, according to a new report from The Wall Street Journal (WSJ). The...

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Deep Dive: How Digital-First Banks Can Effectively Authenticate Customers, Stamp Out Cybercrime
Deep Dive: How Digital-First Banks Can Effectively Authenticate Customers, Stamp Out Cybercrime
August 25, 2020  |  Digital-First Banking

Cybersecurity is a constant and pressing concern for financial institutions of all types and sizes, ranging from small community credit unions to multibillion-dollar international banking...

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Bitcoin Daily: Huawei Creates Blockchain System For Beijing; CryptoTrader.Tax Suffers Hack
Bitcoin Daily: Huawei Creates Blockchain System For Beijing; CryptoTrader.Tax Suffers Hack
August 24, 2020  |  Bitcoin

Huawei has created a technology based on the blockchain to help the Beijing government more effectively monitor and supervise citizen information, CoinDesk reported. The effort...

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Millions Of TikTok, Instagram, YouTube Profiles Left Exposed
Millions Of TikTok, Instagram, YouTube Profiles Left Exposed
August 20, 2020  |  Security & Fraud

A database of some 235 million YouTube, Instagram and TikTok profiles that was held by a now-shuttered company called Deep Social was left exposed without...

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