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A former Bank of America call centre worker has pleaded guilty to stealing high-net worth customer account information and trying to sell it.
09 June 2010
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.
08 June 2010
Romanian police have detained 20 members of a gang accused of manufacturing and selling ATM skimmers.
04 June 2010
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.
21 May 2010
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.
20 May 2010
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.
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.
17 May 2010
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.
14 May 2010
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.
07 May 2010
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.
20 April 2010
US prosecutors have charged a Belarusian man with running a Web site designed to help identity thieves exploit financial information such as card numbers.
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.
16 April 2010
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.
15 April 2010
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.
13 April 2010
A man has been sentenced to 37 months in jail by a New York court for hacking into the online brokerage accounts of Charles Schwab customers and stealing around $246,000.
12 April 2010
South Africa's Standard Bank and telco MTN are being sued for up to $136 million by the head of a technology firm over claims the pair's mobile money joint venture infringed a patent.
09 April 2010
A Bank of America IT worker has been charged with hacking the firm's cash machine systems, enabling him to make withdrawals at ATMs without the transactions getting logged, according to IDG.
US Bank has been ordered by a jury to pay Texas-based DataTreasury $27 million over cheque processing technology patent infringements.
30 March 2010
Customers that see dodgy transactions on their cards and want to get their money back from the bank should skip the usual complaints procedure and sue, according to renowned Cambridge payments security expert Ross Anderson.
Computer hacker Albert Gonzalez has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for masterminding a string of cyber-attacks on retailers, including TJX, which resulted in the theft of tens of millions of payment card details.
26 March 2010
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