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The Canadian Bankers Association has welcomed the introduction of "tough" new laws designed to combat identity theft.
27 October 2009
An Australian pizza boy who hacked into ATMs and changed their settings before stealing around A$30,000 in under an hour has escaped a prison term, according to local press reports.
23 October 2009
A top IBM executive is among six people charged by US authorities over an alleged $20 million hedge fund insider trading scam involving some of the world's biggest technology companies.
19 October 2009
Criminals have stolen more than $479,000 from a Pennsylvania housing development authority after infecting its computer system with the notorious Clampi Trojan. The crime is the latest in a rash of heists from small business banking users in the US that has led some industry bodies to suggest radical lock-down procedures for companies banking online.
16 October 2009
German prosecutors have launched a formal criminal investigation into corporate spying carried out by detectives working for Deutsche Bank but the probe will not target members of the bank's management or supervisory boards.
09 October 2009
Authorities in the US and Egypt have charged 100 people in connection with a phishing scam that saw around $1.5 million stolen from the bank accounts of hundreds of victims.
08 October 2009
A Teza Technologies programmer developed code relating to data storage while still a UBS employee, but the high-frequency trading start-up did not use it, CIO William Sterling has told a Chicago judge.
06 October 2009
Cybercrooks have stolen more than EUR300,000 in just three weeks from German bank accounts using a sophisticated new Trojan that forges online statements to hide the theft from victims, according to a report from security outfit Finjan.
30 September 2009
A US court has ordered Google to temporarily shut down a Gmail account that a bank mistakenly sent sensitive customer data to.
29 September 2009
A federal jury in Texas has ordered MoneyGram to pay rival outfit Western Union $16.53 million in damages for patent infringement.
25 September 2009
A US bank has taken Google to court in a bid to force the search giant to hand over information relating to a Gmail account that the financial institution wrongly sent sensitive customer data to.
22 September 2009
US authorities have charged two men with running an $80 million Ponzi scheme involving fake investments in automatic teller machines.
21 September 2009
A member of a phishing gang that stole financial information from thousands of people and used it to open credit accounts at Wal-Mart stores has pleaded guilty.
11 September 2009
A US couple who had thousands of dollars stolen from their online account have been given the go-ahead by a court to sue their bank for failing to provide adequate security.
08 September 2009
Retailer TJX has agreed to pay $525,000 to settle a putative class action suit from several banks related to the massive security breach at its operations that resulted in the theft of millions of credit and debit card numbers.
04 September 2009
New York prosecutors have indicted five men in connection with a four year investigation into a credit card fraud ring accused of stealing at least $4 million.
02 September 2009
A conman posing as an RBS employee duped a member of staff at the Royal College of Surgeons (RCS) into handing over banking details before withdrawing £465,000 from the organisation's account, according to local press reports.
01 September 2009
US Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke has fallen victim to an identity fraud ring accused of hitting hundreds of people and stealing more than $2.1 million, according to Newsweek.
28 August 2009
Google is about to enter the online mortgage loan aggregator market, according to LendingTree, which is suing a technology vendor it claims is working with the search giant.
27 August 2009
In a move that could see banks forced to hand over greater information on data breaches, a US anti-spam outfit has filed a lawsuit against unnamed "John Does" accused of using malware to steal money from business bank accounts.
26 August 2009
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