Fi911

JULY 8, 2024

Synthetic Fraud Synthetic fraud occurs when criminals create fictitious identities by combining real and fake information, such as using a real Social Security Number with a fake name and address. As we addressed before, acquirers have a vested interest in helping merchants with this challenge.

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VISTA InfoSec

JUNE 21, 2023

Data breaches are affecting millions of people across the globe, with over 340 million records already compromised in 2023 headline cases and new incidents surfacing every week. You need to know if any data has been compromised and, if so, where it may have been shared. 5 - (2 votes)

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 20, 2019

The information exposed did not include any financial information, Social Security numbers or password data. The cyber thief got users’ names, billing addresses, phone numbers, account numbers and plan information. Last month, a data breach exposed the personal data of more than 1 million prepaid T-Mobile customers.

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PYMNTS

MAY 15, 2017

and Puerto Rico had their payment card information compromised. While the information hacked included names, account numbers, expiration dates and verification codes, Brooks Brothers confirmed sensitive information like social security numbers and addresses weren’t compromised. This past week, the U.S.-based

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PYMNTS

JULY 9, 2018

Over a period spanning from the end of April to the middle of June, the party made use of user names and passwords to log in to customers’ accounts, and then gained access to names, email addresses, phone numbers, birthdays and payment card information. The company also revealed that the Social Security numbers of U.S.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Starting with one or two pieces of real information (a Social Security number is always one of them, sometimes paired with a real name), fraudsters take their time to slowly nurture a fake credit profile until it has a good enough record to make a big strike.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 30, 2018

Under Armour has revealed that it’s suffered one of the biggest hacks in history after data from 150 million users of its MyFitnessPal diet and fitness app was compromised in February. The stolen data includes account usernames, email addresses and scrambled passwords for the MyFitnessPal mobile app and website.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2017

million users may have been compromised at its TIO Networks unit, a company it acquired earlier in 2017. PayPal said it was looking into the vulnerabilities at TIO and discovered that users’ information may have been compromised. PayPal disclosed late last week that the personal information of around 1.6

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

customers may have been compromised. The stolen data included Social Security numbers, birth dates and other personal information. Hackers can also pinpoint wealthier targets by sorting the stolen Equifax information by zip code, and then going after those customers with addresses in expensive neighborhoods.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2021

Yet the new bill fails to address the gaps that allowed for fraudulent activity among some businesses that had secured PPP loans in the first round of stimulus, the publication alleges. But new concerns are mounting over the U.S. government's inability to curb the risk of fraud that emerged during the first round of PPP funding.

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PYMNTS

JULY 11, 2018

We have investigated the matter thoroughly, addressed the cause and, as a precaution, have implemented additional security measures,” Macy’s said in an emailed statement. While personal data including birthdates may have been accessed, the retailer said that social security numbers were not.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 31, 2019

High tech — the social media kind — also proved to be a lure for hackers, and where cumulatively 617 million records went on sale on the dark web in February for about $20,000 in bitcoin. The records stolen ranged from email addresses to passwords. Data compromised included email addresses, Social Security numbers and bank information.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 29, 2018

Earlier this year, Under Armour revealed that it suffered one of the biggest hacks in history after data from 150 million users of its MyFitnessPal diet and fitness app was compromised in February. “On The stolen data included account usernames, email addresses and scrambled passwords for the MyFitnessPal mobile app and website.

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PYMNTS

JULY 30, 2018

Users should also be on the lookout for typos and grammatical errors in any emails, and be sure not to share sensitive details like payment card information or Social Security numbers. The Advocate also noted that a way to avoid falling victim to the scam is to verify the URL. That’s an instant foot in the door.”.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Retailer Hudson’s Bay got story started in early April with the disclosure that Saks Fifth Avenue and Lord & Taylor stores in North America had their payment cards compromised. The breach was believed to have seen 5 million cards compromised. According to early reports, the data breach impacted 0.5 Exactis Hack.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Over a period spanning from the end of April to the middle of June, the party made use of usernames and passwords to log in to customers’ accounts, and then gained access to names, email addresses, phone numbers, birthdays and payment card information. However, Macy’s said the accounts don’t include Social Security Numbers or CVV numbers.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 25, 2019

This led to a security breach that compromised the data of approximately 2.1 million consumers — including full names and addresses, dates of birth, genders, answers to security questions, email addresses and passwords, as well as hundreds of Social Security numbers.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Banks, financial institutions (FIs) and other members of the financial world are, thus, dealing with a rising flood of identity theft and application fraud, as bad actors look to capitalize on the email addresses, Social Security numbers, credit details and other information they have on hand. Around the Digital Fraud World.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 11, 2019

Phone numbers, email addresses, usernames and other online signifiers have become vital to digital identity verification, as the world becomes increasingly connected. The Digital Identity Tracker™ , a Jumio collaboration, frames and addresses key issues facing digital identity players. About the Tracker.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 29, 2018

Security researcher Vinny Troia discovered the breach earlier this month. citizen in it,” said Troia, founder of Night Lion Security , in the report. “The data compromised by Exactis’ breach is even more severe than financial information, such as credit card or bank account numbers.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 15, 2019

In the days before eCommerce, before data breaches grabbed everything from Social Security numbers to passwords, before fraudsters began to craft synthetic identities, strong customer authentication was rather simple. Compromised data includes passwords, too, of course. Dynamic PII. The Need For Machine Learning.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 29, 2019

The theft of data was large, and 140,000 Social Security numbers and 80,000 bank account numbers were compromised. Thompson did not get names and addresses of customers, however. . Thompson is in government custody and faces up to 25 years in prison if she is convicted.

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PYMNTS

JULY 15, 2020

With data showing that 45 percent of all 2019 data breaches — and there were a lot of them — involved medical records theft, costing healthcare providers $429 per compromised patient record or nearly $18 billion, organizations can’t be confused about their value to cyberthieves. Medical Records = Dark Web Gold.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 30, 2019

The charges stem from the massive data breach Equifax was hit by in 2017, which compromised the names, Social Security numbers, birth dates, and addresses of more than 145 million Americans. “He abused the trust placed in him and the senior position he held to profit from inside information.”.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

The theft of data was large, and 140,000 Social Security numbers and 80,000 bank account numbers were compromised. Thompson did not get the names and addresses of customers, however. . Thompson is in government custody, and faces up to 25 years in prison if convicted.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

The theft of data was large, and 140,000 Social Security numbers and 80,000 bank account numbers were compromised. Thompson did not get the names and addresses of customers, however. . Thompson is in government custody, and faces up to 25 years in prison if convicted.

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PYMNTS

JULY 17, 2019

Clinical Pathology Laboratories (CPL) is the latest victim of a data security breach at the billing collections service American Medical Collection Agency (AMCA). million LabCorp customers were compromised. The AMCA has advised CPL that patients’ Social Security numbers were not involved in the incident.

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PYMNTS

MAY 8, 2018

Equifax , the embattled credit scoring company that was the subject of a massive data breach last fall, provided several congressional committees in the Senate and House with more information on the data compromised in the breach. Equifax said in the statement that the additional information provided to Congress includes how many U.S.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 30, 2019

The charges stem from the massive data breach Equifax was hit by in 2017, which compromised the names, Social Security numbers, birth dates, and addresses of more than 145 million Americans. “He abused the trust placed in him and the senior position he held to profit from inside information.”.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

He noted that in all the news reports detailing the ravages of identity theft, one thing is notably missing: A list of free services – from the government and elsewhere – that can help individuals monitor whether they have been compromised and how to protect themselves.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

According to TechCrunch , i360, an advertising and data company, no longer asks for full Social Security numbers, opting instead for the last four digits. It said the suspects stole payment card details and personal data such as names, addresses and phone numbers.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 27, 2016

Reuters reported late last week that Peter Locsin, of Talisay City, Philippines, is believed to be behind a cybercrime scheme to compromise the accounts of several well-known individuals at three financial institutions. A spokesman for U.S.

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EBizCharge

OCTOBER 25, 2023

An incident is only considered a data breach if the confidentiality of data is compromised. Sensitive or confidential data can include customer data records, bank account numbers, Social Security numbers, healthcare information, intellectual property, etc. Another common cause of data breaches is social engineering.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 31, 2017

But what about businesses that want to explore the dark web, specifically to see if their data or information has been compromised, without the risk that comes with poking around in such an unfamiliar place? Owl Cybersecurity created a way to safely query the dark net.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

According to a news report in the The New York Post , hackers were able to steal customers’ data — including Social Security numbers — due to a weakness in open source software developed by Apache Software Foundation. consumers and potentially compromised the credit card numbers of approximately 209,000 people. Baird & Co.,

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Clearly Payments

JANUARY 8, 2024

Implementing effective chargeback management practices is essential to minimize their occurrence and address disputes promptly. Addressing customer queries and concerns promptly can prevent frustration and dissatisfaction, reducing the likelihood of customers resorting to chargebacks to resolve issues.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

According to TechCrunch , i360, an advertising and data company, no longer asks for full Social Security numbers, opting instead for the last four digits. It said the suspects stole payment card details and personal data such as names, addresses and phone numbers.

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