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Court backs Visa in trademark case

A US court has ruled a man cannot call his online English language tutoring business "eVisa" because it dilutes the trademark of card giant Visa, according to Reuters.

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FBI fails to crack Brazilian banker's hard drive codes

After a year of failed attempts, the FBI has admitted defeat in its attempts to crack the encryption codes protecting hard drives belonging to a prominent Brazilian banker arrested in connection with a money laundering investigation.

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Spain uses stolen HSBC data for tax probe

Spain has become the latest country to tap data stolen from HSBC's Swiss private banking arm by an IT employee to hunt down tax evaders.

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Police arrest teenagers linked to massive cybercrook forum

UK police have arrested two teenagers as part of an investigation into what is believed to be the biggest English language cybercrime forum in the world.

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Chip and PIN fraud gang members jailed

Members of a criminal gang that stole card details by tampering with chip and PIN terminals at petrol stations throughout southern England have been jailed.

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Card cloning raids net 178 arrests

Police in 12 countries have arrested 178 people accused of involvement in an international credit card cloning ring that is believed to have netted crooks around EUR20 million.

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BofA call centre worker pleads guilty over data theft

A former Bank of America call centre worker has pleaded guilty to stealing high-net worth customer account information and trying to sell it.

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Hacker siphons $644,000 from NYC education department bank account

Crooks hacked into a New York Department of Education electronic bank account used for petty cash and stole around $644,000 over a four-year timeframe.

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Romanian police bust ATM skimming factory

Romanian police have detained 20 members of a gang accused of manufacturing and selling ATM skimmers.

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Bank settles wire transfer security suit against customer

PlainsCapital Bank has settled a lawsuit it bought against one of its own business customers after crooks stole over $800,000 from the company's account.

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Stolen HSBC data tapped for Italian tax evasion probe

Italian police have launched a tax evasion investigation based on data stolen from HSBC's Swiss private banking arm by an IT employee, after being given a list of around 7000 account holders by French counterparts.

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Heartland reaches $41.4m MasterCard settlement over data breach

Heartland Payment Systems has agreed to pay up to $41.4 million to MasterCard issuers in relation to the data breach that hit the processor in 2008.

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UK men jailed over iTunes gift voucher money laundering scam

Five UK men have been jailed for a money laundering scam that saw stolen credit card details used to buy iTunes vouchers that were then sold on eBay.

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Police unmask Latvian hacker who tweeted bankers' pay details

Neo, the Latvian hacker who stole millions of classified tax documents from government computers and leaked the information via Twitter, has been caught by police.

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Ipreo sues Goldman for data theft and copyright infringement

Ipreo Holdings, the operator of the bigdough institutional investor database, has filed suit against Goldman Sachs accusing the bank of copyright infringement and data theft.

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SocGen trader charged with stealing HFT code

A former Societe Generale trader has been arrested by US authorities and charged with stealing propriety computer code used in the bank's high-frequency trading (HFT) system.

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Feds accuse Belarusian of running Web site for ID thieves

US prosecutors have charged a Belarusian man with running a Web site designed to help identity thieves exploit financial information such as card numbers.

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CME sues Canadian FX broker over trademark infringement

The CME is suing a Canadian foreign exchange broker, accusing it of trademark infringement and cybersquatting relating to the Globex name, according to Crain's Chicago Business.

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HSBC data theft victim numbers rise as French authorities step up investigation

Around 79,000 customers are now believed to have been affected by the theft of data from HSBC's Swiss private banking arm by an IT employee, according to a French prosecutor who has launched a tax evasion investigation based on the information.

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US finance firm DA Davidson fined over data breach

A financial consultancy firm has been fined $375,000 by US authorities for a series of failures that enabled a criminal gang to hack into its database and steal the confidential information of nearly 200,000 customers.