June 07, 2016
Hackers Steal 171M VK.com User Accounts
Social networking site VK.com is the latest victim in a string of targeted data breaches that have hit a host of other social media outlets such as LinkedIn, Tumblr and Myspace....
June 01, 2016
Alleged Dark Web Bitcoin Thieves Who Stole $6.6M Nabbed
It appears, once again, that the Dark Web and bitcoin aren’t untraceable. Just in case there was any doubt. A new court case has shown this after it was revealed...
May 20, 2016
Daily Data Dive: Breaches And Hackers Edition
It wouldn’t be the end of the business week in the payments industry if there weren’t another batch of news items relating to cybersecurity, data breaches and hackers. This week’s...
May 20, 2016
Bitcoin’s ‘Robin Hood Hacker’ Targets ISIS
Good intentions gone bad? “Robin Hood Hacker Donates $11,000 of Stolen Bitcoin to Help Fight ISIS.” This is a real story and that was an actual headline. Those bitcoins were...
May 17, 2016
Digital Currency Exchange Suffers $2M Hack
Gatecoin, a Hong Kong-based digital currency exchange company, became the victim of a security breach that allowed hackers to get away with 250 bitcoin and 185,000 Etherium, roughly 15 percent...
May 04, 2016
B2B Deals Bust (And Zooz Raises Funds For International Moves...
On the consumer end of an eCommerce transaction – these days clicking the buy buttons is usually the end of the road, one way or the other. Usually, the transaction...
March 14, 2016
Most Platforms Can’t Scale, Will Fail
Pay attention now because this is going to be absolutely, positively revolutionary. And it’s going to shake the payments industry by its ankles. What is it you ask? Well, it...
March 04, 2016
A Pastor With A Bitcoin Hacks Into A Bank…
It was only a matter of time. That a pastor … got nabbed for his alleged involvement in a bitcoin banking hacking scheme? But more on that later. First, we’ll...
February 26, 2016
Japan’s Political Pitch To Legalize Bitcoin
Here’s a headline that could stop everyone in the payments ecosystem in their tracks: “Japan considers making bitcoin a legal currency.” And then, there are the countries that have outlawed,...