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Payments Processor nCourt Left Years Of Data Exposed

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Payments processor nCourt , used by Arkansas and Oklahoma to collect court and utility fees, has apparently left years of user data unsecured, according to a report by TechCrunch. nCourt runs two court payment sites in the aforementioned states: courtpay.org and utilitypay.org.

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Darden Cyberattack Puts 567K Cards At Risk

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Darden Restaurants announced Wednesday (August 23) that the data on 567,000 payment card numbers may have been exposed. The company said payment card information — including card numbers — from visitors who went to the restaurants from Nov. 3, 2017, through Jan. 2 2018 may have been affected.

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COVID-19 Sees More Online Grocers Accept EBT SNAP Payments For Food

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The latest such move came from Instacart and ALDI, which announced they would allow customers to pay for same-day delivery or pick up food orders using their EBT SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) cards. Amazon announced in May that it had won USDA approval to expand its pilot SNAP online-shopping program to 25 states.

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Will Vroom’s Plan To Bring AI To Auto Sales Mark The Death Of Dealerships?

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Read More On Artificial Intelligence: Benetton Group Teams With Retail Intelligence Firm EDITED IBM: Securing Virtual Cards Starts With Digital Onboarding Walmart, Gatik Expand Self-Driving Truck Test To Louisiana; Arkansas Test Will Now Be Driverless IBM Acquires Canadian FinTech Expertus.

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Tuition, Digital Disbursements And The Paper Chase

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Colleges have had the ability to issue grants and refunds via ACH for 20 years, but government regulations insist on the tangible, tactile paper check as payment mode of choice despite its well-known weaknesses — lack of speed and security, plus an error-prone nature.

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Why Voice Authentication’s Doing Prison Time

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What eventually becomes cutting-edge in retail and payments often originates in places that are dedicated to security, not commerce. Authorities and prison technology companies say this mass biometric surveillance supports prison security and fraud prevention efforts.”. New technology often starts out at the U.S. Voice-Print Efforts.

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Mobilizing Student Loan Disbursements

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Some lenders are turning to reloadable debit cards and other disbursement tools to both provide more direct loan fund access and retain greater transparency. They’re using digital payments, putting cards into digital wallets and using peer-to-peer [P2P] systems instead.”. We are all digital,” Crawford said. “We

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