AT&T said Friday (July 12) that records of calls and texts of nearly all its wireless customers and others using its network were stolen in a cybersecurity incident. The stolen records identify the telephone numbers with which the wireless numbers of AT&T or mobile virtual...
The interconnected nature of financial systems can have cascading consequences when data is compromised. And with the recent news that the June cyber breach at Evolve Bank & Trust has reportedly impacted upwards of 7.6 million customers, containing the impact of a single data breach...
Fraud data sharing consortium Sonar has launched a new service that helps banks and FinTechs verify if their customer data has been compromised in a breach or used for fraudulent activities. This new service, Red Flag, allows organizations to proactively check if an account’s credentials are...
Banks can help combat fraud targeting consumers by verifying the accuracy of transactions, educating the public, and maintaining strong controls and fraud monitoring capabilities, Acting Comptroller of the Currency Michael J. Hsu said. Speaking Wednesday (July 10) during the Financial Literacy and Education Commission’s Public...
Interpol — short for the International Criminal Police Organization — may be familiar to readers as a staple of spy and action movies … where the police join forces around the globe to stop the bad guys in their tracks. And, as detailed in a...
When it comes to securing payments, one can never be too safe. As digital transactions increase and technology advances at breakneck speed, so do the tactics of cyber adversaries. Within the changing cyber threat landscape, few sectors are as dynamically challenged as the payments industry...
OpenAI was reportedly hacked last year, raising security fears at the artificial intelligence company. The hacker accessed the company’s in-house messaging system and made off with details about its artificial intelligence (AI) technology, the New York Times reported Thursday (July 4), citing two sources familiar...
Millions of Apple’s smartphone and computer/laptop apps were reportedly exposed to a security breach. The breach could be used for potential supply chain attacks, ArsTechnica reported Wednesday (July 3), citing research from EVA Information Security. The exploit was uncovered in CocoaPods, an open-source repository used...
A patient affected by a “data security incident” involving Pennsylvania-based health system Geisinger has filed a class-action lawsuit against the company. Geisinger’s IT vendor, Microsoft-owned Nuance, determined that a former employee may have accessed the personal information of 1 million Geisinger patients, according to a...
