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US prosecutors have unveiled charges against three men accused of hacking into a host of major financial institutions, including JPMorgan Chase, and stealing the data of millions of people.
10 November 2015
A 15-year-old boy has been arrested in Northern Ireland in connection with the hack on mobile operator TalkTalk, which put the banking details of millions of people at risk.
26 October 2015
The European Court of Justice has ruled that bitcoin and other virtual currency transactions should be exempt from value added tax.
22 October 2015
Corrupt former DEA agent Carl Force has been sentenced to six-and-a-half years in jail after pleading guilty to a three-count charge of money laundering related to the theft of hundreds of thousands dollars in digital currency during the Silk Road bust.
20 October 2015
The United States Marshals Service is preparing to auction off the final 44,341 bitcoins - worth around $10.8 million at current prices - seized in connection with the Silk Road dark web marketplace.
06 October 2015
Bank of America has filed a US patent application for a system and method that uses cryptocurrency technology for wire transfers.
22 September 2015
A former Morgan Stanley staffer fired by the bank for downloading confidential information on hundreds of thousands of customers to a home server could face five years in prison after a guilty plea.
21 September 2015
BitPay lost $1.8 million in a phishing attack late last year, according to lawsuit filed by the bitcoin payment processing firm against an insurer it is trying to get to cover some of the losses.
17 September 2015
A US judge has given a group of banks the go-ahead for a class action lawsuit against Target over the massive 2013 data breach at the US retail chain.
16 September 2015
A Ukrainian investment banking firm and its CEO have agreed to pay $30 million to settle SEC charges that they profited from trading on information hacked from newswire services.
The Australian Federal Court has ordered Visa to pay $18 million in fines for freezing out rival currency conversion services on terminals that use its cards.
04 September 2015
A former US Secret Service agent has pleaded guilty to stealing $820,000 worth of bitcoin during the investigation into the Silk Road dark bazaar.
01 September 2015
A US district court judge has thrown out a lawsuit brought against Barclays and a number of US exchanges that accused the bank of rigging its dark pool in favour of high frequency traders (HFTs).
27 August 2015
The British futures trader accused by US authorities of contributing to the 2010 "flash crash" has been freed on bail by a London court.
14 August 2015
US authorities have charged nine people with hacking into business newswires to steal yet-to-be published press releases containing financial information that was used to make trades netting around $30 million in illegal profits.
11 August 2015
American technology firm Ubiquiti Networks has revealed that it fell victim to a social engineering trick that saw crooks make off with $46.7 million.
10 August 2015
In a bad day in court for the card firms, a federal appeals court has revived ATM access fee litigation against Visa and MasterCard, while in a separate case a judge has rejected American Express's interchange fee class action settlement.
04 August 2015
Tokyo Metropolitan Police have arrested Mark Karpeles, the former head of defunct bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox over accusations that he siphoned off $1 million in customer funds to his own bank account.
03 August 2015
Authorities in the US and Israel have arrested four people in connection with fraud schemes linked to last year's huge cyberattack on JPMorgan Chase.
22 July 2015
Cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin should be exempt from value-added tax (VAT), according to a European Court of Justice lawyer.
17 July 2015
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