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Npower scraps mobile app after hackers breach customer accounts

Npower, one the UK's big six energy providers serving serving 3.6 million residential and business accounts, has shut down its mobile app after hackers accessed customers accounts, inluding partial bank details.

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DBS makes corporate account opening a snap with biometric face verification

Singapore's DBS is to use the Government's Singpass digital identity and authentication system to provide clients with biometric face verification for corporate account opening.

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BBVA taps Google Cloud Chronicle to build AI security platform

BBVA has today announced that it will be the first bank in Europe to deploy Google Cloud’s security analytics platform Chronicle and will use AI and machine learning to predict and prevent cyberattacks.

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Goldman Sachs joins Trusted Computing Group

Goldman Sachs has joined Trusted Computing Group (TCG) as the not-for-profit turns its attention to fintech security.

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80% of Irish targeted by fraudsters

Four in five people in Ireland say they have received a text, call or email in the last year that they believe was from fraudsters, according to an AIB survey.

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US charges North Koreans in huge hacking operation

The US Department of Justice has unsealed charged against three North Korean computer programmers it says conspired to steal and extort more than $1.3 billion in cash and cryptocurrency.

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Crypto exchange Kraken launches venture fund

Cryptocurrency exchange Kraken has launched a venture fund to invest in early-stage crpto and fintech startups.

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Nationwide partners Swindon Institute of Technology to deliver apprenticeships

Nationwide Building Society has teamed up with the new Swindon Institute of Technology to recruit apprentices in area such as cybersecurity, software development and DevOps.

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Police bust celebrity SIM-Swapping gang

Ten hackers who stole over $100 million in cryptocurrencies from celebrities and influencers in a rash of SIM-Swapping attacks have been apprehended in an international swoop co-ordinated Europol.

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RBNZ governor blames data hack on Accellion

Reserve Bank of New Zealand govenor Adrian Orr has placed the blame for a recent file sharing breach squarely on the shoulders of tech provider Accellion

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Westpac clamps down on abusive messages sent via payment transactions

Westpac is introducing new tools to clamp down on the use of payment channels to send abusive and threatening messages to recipients via the description and reference fields in online banking transactions.

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105 arrested for stealing over $12 million from US banks

A criminal network that used shell companies to steal over $12 million from 50 US financial institutions has been dismanteld following a cross-border strike co-ordinated by Interpol.