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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.
18 March 2014
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.
17 March 2014
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.
14 March 2014
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.
28 February 2014
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.
19 February 2014
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.
29 January 2014
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.
27 January 2014
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.
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.
21 January 2014
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.
03 January 2014
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.
17 December 2013
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.
22 November 2013
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.
13 November 2013
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.
12 November 2013
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.
01 November 2013
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.
30 October 2013
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.
23 October 2013
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.
03 October 2013
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.
17 September 2013
New York prosecutors have charged two men with stealing trading code and data from their former employer, Flow Traders, and e-mailing it to themselves.
27 August 2013
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