There may come a day, a generation or two from now, when stories about the data breaches and other hacking threats faced by payments and commerce operators in 2018 seem quaint — or, at the least, like relatively primitive foreshadowing of a new type of...
Privacy is not an afterthought with the “privacy by design” mindset, and FinTech startups may take a similar approach with data security. In that sense, they may incorporate data security every time they make an enhancement or a release. “It’s really built in by design,”...
Security is a complicated and thorny topic in payments and commerce, because it means different things to different consumers. The most obvious threat is the one presented from the outside by cybercriminals, with the challenge of keeping checkout flows smooth while also making sure they are...
Timehop, the mobile app that gathers photos from social media, disclosed on Monday (July 9) that it was the subject of a data breach. In a blog post, the company said that on July 4 it experienced a network intrusion that led to a breach...
July 09, 2018
Timehop, the mobile app that gathers photos from social media, disclosed on Monday (July 9) that it was the subject of a data breach. In a blog post, the company said that on July 4 it experienced a network intrusion that led to a breach of some of its customers’ data. It said the incident […]
October 09, 2017
TransUnion, the credit reporting competitor to Equifax, has brought on a team of cybersecurity-focused lobbyists in Washington, D.C, reported Recode. Citing a federal ethics disclosure filing, Recode reported that while...
