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Feds bust international card fraud gang

US authorities have indicted 17 people accused of using stolen card data from Europe to withdraw hundreds of thousands of dollars from ATMs in Chicago.

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US charges three in multi-million dollar cybercrime case

US authorities have charged three men accused of using information hacked from more than a dozen financial service firms in a bid to steal at least $15 million.

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Mizuho faces legal action over MT Gox collapse

The risks to banks of handling bitcoin-related business has moved centre-stage as Japan's Mizuho gets caught in the cross-hairs of the MT Gox collapse.

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Barclays cybercrime gang members convicted

Members of a criminal gang which attached devices to bank branch computers so that they could remotely control accounts and steal £1.25 million, have been found guilty.

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Brit charged with hacking US Fed's computer servers

A British man has been charged with hacking into the US Federal Reserve computer servers, stealing the personal information of users and publishing it online.

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Barclays employee accused of acting as inside man for £1.25m cyber-heist

A Barclays employee acted as an inside man for a criminal gang which attached a piece of hardware to a computer at the branch where he worked and used it to steal £1.25 million, a court has heard.

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SpyEye malware author pleads guilty

A Russian national has pleaded guilty in the US to developing and distributing the notorious SpyEye malware, which has infected more than a million computers and been used to steal millions of dollars.

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BitInstant CEO charged with money laundering over Silk Road scheme

US prosecutors have charged BitInstant CEO Charlie Shrem and an accomplice with running a scheme to sell over $1 million in bitcoins to users of the underground Silk Road marketplace.

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Feds shut down counterfeit card site

US authorities have charged three men with running an online shop that made and sold counterfeit credit and debit cards and holographic overlays to crooks.

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Texas police make Target data breach-related arrests

Texas police have arrested two Mexican citizens accused of using card data stolen in the Target data breach to buy tens of thousands of dollars' worth of goods.

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Retailers file interchange settlement appeal

The National Retail Federation has filed an appeal of the $5.7 billion settlement with Visa and MasterCard over credit card swipe fees green-lighted by a judge last month.

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Judge rejects Nasdaq OMX bid to dismiss Facebook IPO lawsuits

A US judge has denied Nasdaq OMX's request to dismiss lawsuits filed by investors who say that they lost money thanks to the exchange operator's botched handling of the Facebook IPO.

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Met police chief calls on banks to help fund new cyber-crime unit

Scotland Yard chief Bernard Hogan-Howe is calling on banks to help fund a new London cyber-crime fighting unit, admitting that traditional policing methods are failing against high-tech crooks.

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Bank IT worker finds naked photo of senior manager on work laptop

Bank IT staffer Claudio Pallone found a sexually explicit photograph on a work laptop of a naked senior manager posing in front of a mirror, an employment tribunal has heard.

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UK malware fraudsters convicted

Members of a UK fraud gang that used self-written malware to gather financial data and steal hundreds of thousands of pounds, have been convicted.

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Liberty Reserve co-founder pleads guilty to money laundering

The co-founder of Liberty Reserve, a digital currency outfit described by authorities as the criminal underworld's "bank of choice", has pleaded guilty to money laundering charges.

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Dutch phishers use bitcoin to launder EUR1 million haul

Dutch police have arrested four men accused of using malware to steal in the region of EUR1 million from online bank accounts and then laundering the money using bitcoin.

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Diebold pays $48m to settle bank bribery charges

US ATM manufacturer Diebold has agreed to pay $48 million to settle criminal and civil charges that it handed over millions of dollars in bribes to bank officials in China, Indonesia and Russia.

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Bitcoin value bounces back after Silk Road shock

Virtual currency bitcoin has seen its value bounce back after an initial heavy fall in the wake of the FBI's take-down of the Silk Road online marketplace.

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MT. Gox demands return of $5.3m in CoinLab counter-suit

Bitcoin exchange MT. Gox has filed a counter-suit against its one-time partner CoinLab, demanding the return of around $5.3 million in customer funds.