PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services ( CMS ) confirmed on its website that it was the victim of a data breach in October — the Marketplace system used for agents and brokers was hacked. HealthCare.gov is safe to use, and the agent and broker system is now available again with additional security measures in place.

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EBizCharge

MARCH 18, 2024

From names and addresses to medical insurance and social security, this information must be handled with the utmost care to ensure privacy and security. The breach notification rule requires entities to notify affected individuals and the Department of Health and Human Services (HSS) following a breach of unsecured PHI.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

With a wealth of stolen credentials to pick from in the wake of several data breaches that comprised the identities of millions, fraudsters have more resources than ever. Take Marriott , which is still dealing with the fallout of a breach that left the data of 500 million rewards customers exposed. Inverting the Fraud Approach.

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VISTA InfoSec

JULY 5, 2023

Adherence to these regulations is paramount for safeguarding sensitive patient information from data breaches and cyber attacks. With the proliferation of people paying hospital bills and health insurance using credit and debit cards, the risk of identity theft has also augmented exponentially! million people.

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Payments Source

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

The breach may result in a huge new dump of names, addresses, Social Security numbers, and other personal information that fraudsters can leverage to gain access to a legitimate user’s account, writes Jason Tan, CEO of Sift Science.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

After the Mueller indictments, do banks’ “day zero” identity verifications need a makeover? We’re referring, of course, to the act of opening a bank account from scratch, from the beginning – providing everything from name, address, Social Security number, identity documents and the like….

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 2, 2019

Warby Parker contacted law enforcement when it found out about the breach. One of the biggest problems with these types of data breaches is that many users repeat passwords over many sites, and when information is stolen from one company, it can often be used by another. Warby Parker said that is what happened with this breach.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 3, 2019

million were compromised and exposed in a data breach of an agency that collects money for Quest Diagnostics and UnitedHealth Group, according to a report by Bloomberg. Quest revealed the information in a securities filing. Patient records numbering around 11.9

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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. Cookies often contain session data that can authenticate a user to a website, and securing these is crucial to preventing identity theft.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 27, 2017

Eric Chiu, cofounder and president of HyTrust , joined this week’s Hacker Tracker to share insights on the SEC examining the Yahoo breaches, why a selfie app may cause more harm than good and how the U.S. Yahoo disclosed a breach of 500 million users’ data in Sept. America’s Data Breach Problem. SEC Keeps An Eye On Yahoo.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2018

Like breaches , for example. Thursday was the same day the company said that more individuals in the United States were hit by last year’s data breach than had been initially estimated. And in terms of the data that was taken, hackers accessed driver’s license data but not Social Security numbers. million, up 2.4

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Hackers who used to amuse themselves stealing credit cards have raised the level of their identity theft game such that 2017 was a record year — 16.7 Al Pascual, Javelin’s research director and head of fraud and security, expects 2018 to be another record year. That fraud run saw $16.8 They’re smarter now. billion last year.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 10, 2019

More than 446 million consumer records were exposed in data breaches in 2018, an increase of 126 percent compared to 2017, according to a 2018 Identity Theft Resource Center report. In the case of synthetic identity theft, the devil is in the details,” said Barnhardt.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Payroll information for tens of thousands of Facebook employees, including banking information, names, bank account numbers and the last four digits of Social Security numbers, was stolen from an employee’s car in an apparent smash and grab, according to a report by Bloomberg. .

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 23, 2019

In synthetic identity theft, she explained, the fraudster is still pretending to be someone they are not, but the difference is that they aren’t so much imitating an existing person as creating one. Is the Social Security number associated with a person who is both alive and over the age of 18?

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2016

Verizon is expected to move ahead with its acquisition of Yahoo’s core assets even after Yahoo disclosed another massive data breach potentially impacting millions of consumers. The Identity Theft Resource Center, which Bloomberg cited in its report, pegs the number of data breaches in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

News Monday that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has walked back from a full-tilt investigation into the Equifax breach brought to mind the personal data of hundreds of millions of people that is now floating across the Badlands of the Dark Web. In fact, the dates of death preceded the dates of the credit applications.

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PYMNTS

JULY 28, 2020

Traditional fraud-fighting methods can fail to detect this subtle form of deception, in which criminals cobble together details from numerous consumers to create unique identities. Cybercriminals often use these identities to set up bank accounts and apply for credit cards and loans. billion from the nation’s consumers in 2018.

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Clearly Payments

JANUARY 8, 2024

This can include stolen credit card information, identity theft, or fraudulent transactions. Security, Compliance, and Regulatory Risk: Cybersecurity risk involves the threat of data breaches and unauthorized access to sensitive payment information.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Looking at research from the Identity Theft Resource Center, QuickBridge pointed to small businesses in the healthcare, banking and finance, and retail sectors as particularly popular targets for cyberattackers.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

What to do in the wake of the Equifax breach: Run? As Topic TBD host Karen Webster posited to Stuut, the breach may be to authentication what Target’s own data theft woes were to EMV: the catalyst for immediate change. Freeze credit? That’s just on the consumer side, and none of them are delightful choices. . Think scale.

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Stax

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Of course, financial criminal activity doesn’t have to just lead to monetary loss—it could also lead to a data breach of customer information. Introduce the customer identification program (CIP) Basically, the CIP requires that companies get four pieces of identifying information about their client for identity verification.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 9, 2019

Stopping fraudsters can feel a bit like playing Whac-A-Mole for luxury retailers who want to protect customers and data, and no one wants to be the next retailer to experience a data breach or high-volume fraud attack. This is especially true as data breaches grow more common as eCommerce sales grow. The Importance Of AI.

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FICO

OCTOBER 7, 2022

As it happens, buy now, pay later (BNPL) breached the $100 billion in mark in 2020 and soared to $157 billion in 2021 , according to FICO partner Worldpay. Fri, 10/07/2022 - 14:10. This headline a year ago left me scratching my head: “ How buy now, pay later became a $100 billion industry.”

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 23, 2018

One is the increasing prospect of fraud, of criminals breaking into healthcare IT systems in search of patient data, the scope of which can enable identity theft in ways that are relatively easier than in other sectors. That said, the move to digital can spark new challenges for medical offices.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 12, 2018

The only good thing about an ongoing parade of data breaches and innovative attempts at identity theft is that it can be incredibly persuasive when it comes to the importance of making the payments process more secure. And if that isn’t buttoned up, fraudulent payments will happen time and time again,” he said.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

The Social Security number (SSN) was never meant to get this much attention. Yet those nine numbers have become a standard bearer for identity verification, a gold mine for fraudsters – maybe rendered moot by the huge breaches at Equifax and other companies. Let’s not pick solely on the SSN.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JUNE 22, 2015

But last week BillGuard demonstrated a promising new avenue for incremental fee income: integrated mobile identity theft alerts, resolution and insurance ( see inset ). The c redit and fraud monitoring is powered by CSIdentity (CSID), an Austin-based firm that says it powers 80% of the retail identity theft protection industry.

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PYMNTS

MAY 6, 2020

Fraudsters can also carefully hoard a cache of stolen bank account data, credit and debit card information, Social Security numbers and other details to impersonate legitimate customers, using these details outright or cobbling them together to perpetrate identity theft, new account fraud and gain entry to other platforms.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 21, 2016

The company notes that the credentials may have been breached by a third party between the dates of May 12, 2015 and April 28, 2016. The company noted that the breach has been reported to its credit card processor along with federal law enforcement officials. Canada and Puerto Rico, according to a letter from the company.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 1, 2019

Equifax’s expansion of small business credit scoring data services followed a class action lawsuit filed in 2017 by small business owners related to its massive data breach that year. ” . ”

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PYMNTS

JUNE 1, 2017

For instance, social media scored low on the confidence scale, meaning users felt their information was not secure on these platforms … yet that’s where people posted the most personal information that can be used for identity theft. Consumers have very high expectations that organizations will secure them,” Grant said.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Equifax CEO Mark Begor revealed that he has been the victim of identity theft three times in the past 10 years during a privacy hearing on Tuesday (February 26). In 2017, Equifax suffered a massive data breach that exposed the personal data of 143 million consumers in the U.S., Begor made the confession after U.S.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2017

Train your eye on cybersecurity and data breaches, and more is certainly something no firm wants to experience. Breaking down that tally, the business sector was the focus of about 45 percent of breaches. Health care and medical services, grouped together, were 34 percent of breaches. And yet, hope cannot trump experience here.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

That’s because the indictments allege malfeasance that spans online transactions, banking and the ever-present specter of identity theft. The data breached and the data appropriated seem familiar enough. Birth dates, Social Security numbers, bank accounts — all wend their way through dark channels on the web.

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