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JULY 31, 2020

Twitter continues to inform users about its investigation into a massive security breach two weeks ago when hackers seized control of the celebrity accounts of Joe Biden, Kim Kardashian, Bill Gates and dozens of other A-listers. The cybercriminals asked followers to send bitcoin to a single wallet. The scammers made off with about $100,000.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2021

At the same time, as this week's B2B Data Digest reveals, fraud can come from many sources, not only outside of the enterprise. From commercial card misuse to invoice fraud, internal employees can be the bad actors, too. 727,000 was defrauded from a Missouri trucking company in an employee expense scam , reports in FreightWaves said.

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MAY 28, 2020

This means FIs must be able to ferret out and defend against an ever-more complex array of attacks, and they deploy advanced fraud detection strategies and designate additional resources to keep themselves and their customers safe. Staying ahead of fraud requires constant innovation. Red Flag Behaviors.

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JULY 6, 2020

Wirecard continues to dominate the headlines in the realm of corporate fraud thanks to $2 billion missing from the company’s books, but it’s not the only company at the center of questionable activity. 34 percent of furloughed employees were asked to commit furlough fraud , according to a survey from U.K.-based

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JULY 16, 2020

Twitter caught the hackers and temporarily disabled all verified accounts to stop the message from being circulated — but before Twitter managed to pull the plug press reports indicated that scammers made off with more than $117,000 sent to two accounts via some 401 transactions, according to tracking website blockchain.com. “We

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Mobile means one can do just about anything by using their device: order food, bank online, read the news … even commit payments fraud, sometimes from the unlikeliest of places. In Australia, news came that police have charged a quartet of alleged fraudsters with running a business email compromise (BEC) scam.

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AUGUST 10, 2016

Social Security numbers, medical information, bank account numbers and claims information were not part of the hack. John Huff, director of the Missouri Department of Insurance, said in a statement in the report that information on 411,786 members of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas City was potentially taken.

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