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Australian police are hunting thieves suspected of stealing over $500,000 from ANZ customer bank accounts using details obtained from a skimming device attached to a cash machine in Melbourne.
24 March 2009
Security vendor Cryptomathic has filed a lawsuit in Oslo against Norway's BBS alleging patent infringement relating to the use of digital mobile signatures for Internet banking applications.
11 March 2009
Ireland's Payzone has confirmed it is being sued by UK motorway service station operator Welcome Break in a dispute over ATM maintenance targets and charges made to customers for cash machine withdrawals.
Korea's Woori Bank has chosen anti-money laundering technology from Dublin-based Norkom to help it comply with recently introduced AML regulations.
Electronic fixed income network MarketAxess has been granted a US patent for its bid/offer list automated trading functionality.
10 March 2009
German police have shut down an Internet forum used by cybercriminals to share malicious software and password stealing programs.
06 March 2009
A US federal grand jury has returned an indictment against four men accused of tricking hundreds of victims into investing around $8 million in a bogus 'cashless ATM' business.
05 March 2009
A Soho sex shop owner and self-proclaimed knight of the realm have been found guilty for their role in a conspiracy to steal £229 million from Sumitomo Mitsui Bank in a hi-tech software scam.
04 March 2009
Freedom International Brokerage has filed a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against Tullett Prebon Canada, accusing its rival of hacking into its computer system thousands of times to steal proprietary information, according to local press reports.
03 March 2009
Visa has been hit with a lawsuit for allegedly infringing a patent covering the notification and authorisation of transactions via text messages sent to cardholders' mobile phones.
27 February 2009
The UK's judges should be given a thorough grounding on the computer techniques used to steal bank account and card details, according to new recommendations from the Sentencing Guidelines Council (SGC).
A Bulgarian man known colloquially as The Hacker, has been given a four-and-a-half year jail sentence for masterminding a criminal gang that milked millions of dollars from US credit card accounts.
25 February 2009
Chase Card Services has received a patent for First Watch Intelligence, an analytical application for detecting credit card fraud and ID theft.
24 February 2009
A Nigerian man has been accused of duping Citibank into wiring $27 million in funds from the central Bank of Ethiopa to accounts controlled by fraudsters in Japan, South Korea, Australia, China, Cyprus and the United States.
The UK Government has laid before Parliament regulations to implement the EU Payment Services Directive (PSD) into UK legislation.
11 February 2009
Mergers and acquisitions professionals from UBS and Blackstone Advisory Service have been charged by US authorities with feeding confidential information to an insider trading ring that generated over $11.6 million.
06 February 2009
NewRiver, a US software provider to the brokerage industry, has filed a lawsuit against Morningstar, alleging the investment research provider unlawfully accessed its Web-based data warehouse.
03 February 2009
A computer programmer fired by Fannie Mae has been indicted for planting a malicious script on the US mortgage firm's servers designed to spread throughout its entire PC network and destroy all data.
30 January 2009
A Pennsylvania man who withdrew more than $175,000 that had been mistakenly placed in his account after a bank error, says he thought the money was "a gift from God", according to an Associated Press (AP) report.
23 January 2009
A gang of thieves broke into the London offices of Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation and installed keylogging software on computers in a daring plot to steal £229 million, a court has been told.
22 January 2009
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