Exact Payments

JULY 1, 2024

By Jeremy Smillie, VP of DevSecOps at Exact Payments In an era where data breaches are not just threats but realities, protecting Personally Identifiable Information (PII) is more crucial than ever. At Exact Payments, we understand the magnitude of the responsibility of handling such sensitive data. We implement TLS 1.3,

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PYMNTS

APRIL 11, 2016

has become the latest federal system impacted by a major data breach. In an internal FDIC document obtained by The Washington Post , it was revealed that the data of 44,000 FDIC customers was breached by an employee who left the agency in February. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.

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JUNE 19, 2017

The company believes that exposure of cardholder data that could be used to create counterfeit cards – including names, addresses, emails and Social Security numbers – was limited, but some credit card numbers may have been compromised. The breach may affect users who paid via credit card at affected Buckle store locations between Oct.

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Finovate

AUGUST 28, 2024

With the backing of an expansive data consortium of 5,000+ financial institutions, the platform also enables banks and financial institutions to block merchants deemed “high risk” and limit the potential damage from major data breaches.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2020

1, the first-class action lawsuit alleging data breaches under the CCPA was filed on Feb 5. The complaint accuses Salesforce of allowing the site to be infected with malware, which is the prime suspect for the data breach. A data breach that exposes the records of 10,000 customers could potentially cost a firm up to $7.5

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FEBRUARY 10, 2020

1, the first-class action lawsuit alleging data breaches under the CCPA was filed on Feb 5. The complaint accuses Salesforce of allowing the site to be infected with malware, which is the prime suspect for the data breach. A data breach that exposes the records of 10,000 customers could potentially cost a firm up to $7.5

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

In the wake of the massive data breach at Equifax , the embattled credit scoring company announced that the Chief Information Officer, David Webb, and the chief security officer, Susan Mauldin, will both retire. These moves come after the company disclosed a major data breach in which 143 million U.S.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 19, 2019

Here are some examples of restaurants and retailers that have bounced back from mobile data breaches and what they are doing to ensure security. Chipotle is on the route to recovery after suffering setbacks due to food safety concerns, falling sales – oh, and an April data breach. Chipotle .

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APRIL 14, 2019

According to reports citing Microsoft, the company confirmed that a “limited” number of webmail users — including @msn.com and @hotmail.com — saw their accounts compromised by hackers. The breach happened between January 1, 2019, and March 28, 2019, according to reports. Microsoft said affected users should change their passwords.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2016

New York’s lab is mostly equipped to process evidence from mobile data. New lab comes equipped with a Faraday cage, a shielded room that blocks external signals to prevent outside interference of devices, which could easily hamper an ongoing criminal investigation. data breach ).

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FEBRUARY 23, 2018

The user either approves or blocks access by tapping either “Accept” or “Reject.” The deal with Equifax comes of the heels of the credit scoring company suffering a massive data breach in 2017 that resulted in more than 145.5 million customers’ personally identifiable information being compromised.

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Exact Payments

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

For example, a token generated for a credit card transaction with Google Pay is only valid for Google Pay transactions, reducing the token’s usability if it is compromised. This additional layer of security blocks fraudsters, making it more difficult to steal credit card data.

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AUGUST 7, 2020

Recent data shows that thwarted attempts to get one security solution’s users to visit malicious, video game-themed websites rose 54 percent from January to April. The following Deep Dive examines how fraudsters’ schemes target gamers as well as how data breaches enable bad actors to commit account takeover (ATO) fraud.

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AUGUST 18, 2016

It’s no wonder this trend has emerged, especially with the onslaught of data breaches in recent years that have made compromised payment data more accessible than ever before.

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Stax

JANUARY 15, 2024

To put it simply, it’s a matter of compromise. Implement geo-blocking measures, i.e., blocking or limiting payment transactions from regions or countries where surcharging is prohibited by local regulations. They also increase their vulnerability to data breaches and credit card fraud.

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DECEMBER 30, 2016

Bank heists and data breaches saw no shortage in 2016, and corporates large and small could no longer avoid the risk of a cyberattack. 2017 will see a continued rise in cybersecurity threats particularly around business email compromise , ransomware and malicious insiders. In addition, the battlefield is evolving.

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FICO

APRIL 16, 2019

Stopping Fraud - Card Block Strategies. More than 50 percent of APAC banks continue to simply block cards on the first fraud alert, a rate that remains unchanged from the 2017 survey. of compromised records worldwide. The survey found that efforts to keep up with changing fraud patterns remain mixed.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2019

He added that the company now blocks emails from Hong Kong. “We We never got compromised, and never saw the phishing emails,” he said. Ted Cash, general manager of ALP Utilities in Minnesota, revealed that his employees “found a quarantined email in a restricted account” after being contacted by the FBI.

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OCTOBER 2, 2018

For example, Facebook recently disclosed that an unprecedented data breach, discovered on September 25, exposed the social media accounts of up to 90 million users — including login credentials — effectively compromising access to any site that lets users log in with their Facebook account.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2017

While they can’t be used to create a chip-based card, they allow enough data to be passed to create dummy magnetic cards that can then be used to perpetrate fraud. In one of the latest payment card data breaches reported affecting the hotel industry, InterContinental Hotels Group confirmed 12 of its U.S. A large chunk of U.S.

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OCTOBER 19, 2016

But the rise of online commerce and the years of online data breaches that have become an almost daily occurrence mean there is a massive amount of compromised payment and account data that fraudsters can use to perpetrate their activities on an even larger scale. How Times — And Priorities — Have Changed.

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Payment Savvy

JULY 3, 2024

Tokenization helps minimize the risk of data breaches, as even if a token is compromised, it holds no value without the corresponding debit card information. 2FA verifies that only authorized users can complete transactions, even if their debit card information is compromised.

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Seon

MAY 16, 2024

While some of these iGaming attacks fall within grey areas, others are absolutely considered fraudulent, for instance: creating multiple accounts under different names, using stolen IDs to bypass KYC checks, and using spoofing technology to evade IP blocks.

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MARCH 8, 2019

Any company seen as recklessly harvesting, storing, manipulating or selling their consumer data — to saying nothing of suffering a data breach — is promised bad PR. “If The first step to successful data monetization, Koch explained, is to have a successful data strategy. Starting Small.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Thirty years later, I find their tagline a rather fitting metaphor for the Equifax data breach and the flurry of headlines made by everyone who now wants to take them — and their two credit reporting agency compadres, Experian and TransUnion — out to the regulatory woodshed. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D – Mass.)

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APRIL 15, 2016

To pay for that wall, Trump says that he will block remittance transfers to Mexico. Data Breach Shutters Bitcoin Wallet. was breached. The company said it suffered a data breach earlier this month. Checks were in place, but the check was then subsequently not used to block the database call.

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