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The Australian Bankers' Association has hit out at government proposals floating the introduction of mandatory data breach notification laws, claiming that they would cause "unnecessary alarm".
19 October 2012
A former senior software engineer at CME Group has admitted to stealing source code from the Chicago-based exchange operator at the same time as he was working to boost the technological performance of a Chinese bourse.
20 September 2012
A couple of Romanians have pleaded guilty to their part in a scam that saw the point-of-sale systems of hundreds of US Subway sandwich shops hacked, thousands of cards compromised and millions of dollars stolen.
19 September 2012
A spate of attacks on US financial institutions has seen criminals obtaining bank employee login details through phishing and keylogging and using the information to wire themselves hundreds of thousands of dollars, the FBI is warning.
America's National Retail Federation (NRF) says it will go to court to block a $7.25 billion class action settlement with Visa and MasterCard over credit card interchange fees.
11 September 2012
A US court has rejected BancorpSouth's counter-suit against a former commercial customer it sought to hold liable for losses related to an ACH and wire fraud case.
29 August 2012
A Halifax worker has been arrested on suspicion of stealing around £700,000 from the bank's cash machines.
16 August 2012
A Singapore-based HSBC banker has filed a lawsuit demanding that Yahoo hand over details of a user who impersonated him on its Web site and made offensive remarks about locals.
14 August 2012
Thomson Reuters has filed an application to settle a class action lawsuit over its proposed acquisition of multi-bank foreign exchange portal FXall and extended its $616 million tender offer by three days.
Bitcoin exchange Bitcoinica is being sued by four former users who allege they are owed nearly half a million dollars-worth of the virtual currency, plus damages.
13 August 2012
Sergey Aleynikov, the former Goldman Sachs programmer who had his conviction for stealing the bank's propriety HFT code overturned earlier this year, has been hit with fresh charges.
10 August 2012
Lloyds' former head of fraud and security for digital banking has pleaded guilty in connection with a £2.46 million fraud.
07 August 2012
A man who went on a year-long skimming spree, targeting Chase Bank ATMs in four US states and stealing more than $400,000 from victims, has been jailed for five years.
01 August 2012
Mobile cheque imaging outfit Mitek has raised the stakes in its ongoing legal battle with online army bank USAA to include claims for defamation and unfair business practices.
19 July 2012
Missouri-based Pulaski Bank has filed a lawsuit against rival First State Bank and three former employees alleging the theft of customer information, loan files and confidential trade secrets.
16 July 2012
US retailers have reached a $7.25 billion class action settlement with Visa, MasterCard and nine major credit card issuers, ending a seven-year legal dispute over interchange fees.
An Icelandic court has ordered local card acquiring outfit Valitor to reopen a gateway to WikiLeaks, giving the whistleblowing Web site its first victory against the banking blockade that has choked off its money supply for over a year.
13 July 2012
Square seems to be getting a bit shirty with mPowa, calling in lawyers to demand the upstart rival remove from its Web site an image that bears a striking resemblance to one on Jack Dorsey's baby's own portal.
12 July 2012
Former Citigroup treasurer Gary Foster has been sentenced to just over eight years in jail for embezzling nearly $23 million from the bank.
03 July 2012
Two men who used the SpyEye malware to steal around £100,000 from online bank accounts have been jailed by a London court.
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