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Guilty plea in $23m card fraud case

A US man has admitted leading a stolen credit card trafficking ring that racked up fraud losses of more than $23 million.

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Russian pleads not guilty to POS hacking

A Russian man has pleaded not guilty in a US court to charges that he hacked into point-of-sale terminals and sold stolen card data on online forums.

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Barclays seeks dismissal of NY Attorney General's dark pool lawsuit

Barclays has filed a motion seeking to throw out a lawsuit from the New York Attorney General accusing the bank of deceptively luring unwary investors to a dark pool that was actually being run for the benefit of predatory high-frequency traders.

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Romanian cybercrime network dismantled

European authorities say they have dismantled a Romanian-dominated cybercrime network that used a host of tactics to steal more than EUR2 million.

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Goldman goes to court to get Google to delete email containing client data

Goldman Sachs has gone to court to get Google to delete an email containing "highly confidential" client data because it was sent to the wrong recipient.

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CLS wins legal battle in settlement 'patent' dispute

The US Supreme Court has found in favour of CLS Bank in a long-running patent dispute with Alice Corporation over the abstract notion of intermediated settlement.

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US govt to auction Silk Road bitcoins

The US Marshals' office is auctioning off nearly 30,000 bitcoin seized last year from the Silk Road dark web marketplace.

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Thomson Reuters settles lawsuit with whistle-blowing ex-employee

Thomson Reuters has reached a settlement agreement with a former staffer who sued the firm for wrongful termination, claiming he lost his job for whistle-blowing.

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Judge orders RBS to stop using loan software

A US judge has ordered RBS to stop using critical trade finance software from vendor Complex Systems, according to the Financial Times.

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Mt. Gox CEO unwilling to travel to US to answer bankruptcy case questions

Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpeles is refusing to travel to America this week to answer questions about the Tokyo-based bitcoin exchange's US bankruptcy case.

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CME Group sued over HFT sneak peek claims

CME Group is being sued by three users, accused of selling sneak peeks at order information to high-frequency traders.

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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.