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Cash may be losing its lustre for the general public but it is still king for crooks looking to launder their ill-gotten gains, according to Europol.
08 July 2015
Former Goldman Sachs programmer Sergey Aleynikov has had a conviction for stealing the bank's propriety HFT code thrown out for the second time.
07 July 2015
A cybergang member has been sentenced to 50 months in prison for his part in a global ATM heist that saw $14 million dollars stolen in a single weekend.
06 July 2015
A Turkish man accused of masterminding a series of ATM cyberheists that netted his gang $55 million, has been extradited to the US.
26 June 2015
Police across Europe have arrested 49 suspected members of a cyber-gang accused of stealing EUR6 million through man-in-the-middle fraud.
11 June 2015
The legal fallout from Home Depot's data breach continues, with the retail giant asking a court to dismiss a consolidated class action lawsuit filed by consumers just as a collection of financial institutions launch their own suit.
02 June 2015
Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the Silk Road, a dark web bazaar where shoppers bought and sold illegal goods with bitcoin, has been sentenced to life in prison.
29 May 2015
A US-based charity is suing Commonwealth Bank of Australia seeking the return of $2.5 million that Oz cops say was used to bribe two former CBA IT executives.
27 May 2015
MasterCard's $19 million settlement with Target over the retailer's data breach has collapsed in the face of opposition from banks.
22 May 2015
A former JPMorgan Chase worker has been arrested by the FBI on charges that he stole customer account information and sold it to an undercover informant.
01 May 2015
Romanian police have arrested 25 people accused of being part of a cybergang that used cloned cards to steal more than $15 million in thousands of ATM withdrawals around the world.
30 April 2015
Nasdaq has agreed to pay $26.5 million to settle a class action lawsuit over the technical glitches that marred the IPO of Facebook in 2012.
24 April 2015
A British futures trader has been arrested after US authorities accused him of contributing to the 2010 "flash crash," which saw the S&P 500 index plummet 600 points in minutes, sending shockwaves through the global financial system.
21 April 2015
Class action lawyers representing banks in litigation against Target have blasted MasterCard's $19 million settlement with the US retailer over the 2013 data breach.
17 April 2015
Russian authorities have arrested alleged members of a gang of "cyberfascists" accused of using Android malware to drain victims' bank accounts.
13 April 2015
Sergey Aleynikov, the former Goldman Sachs programmer who had a conviction for stealing the bank's propriety HFT code overturned is back on trial on charges related to the same incident.
01 April 2015
Two former federal agents have been charged with stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of bitcoin during the investigation of the Silk Road dark web marketplace.
30 March 2015
A former IT executive at Commonwealth Bank of Australia has been charged with bribery over payments he allegedly received from a US tech vendor.
18 March 2015
Ross Ulbricht could face life in prison after being found guilty of seven charges related to his running of the Silk Road, a dark web bazaar where shoppers bought and sold illegal goods with bitcoin.
04 February 2015
New York's Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is ratcheting up the pressure on Barclays Bank as he expands his lawsuit accusing the bank of fraud in the operation of its US dark pool.
22 January 2015
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