CFPB Monitor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Blaine Luetkemeyer would significantly change data security and breach notification standards for the financial services and insurance industries. Most notably, the proposed legislation would create a national standard for data security and breach notification and preempt all current state law on the matter.

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MAY 19, 2020

Sen told The Hacker News that the exposed data included account login cookies and archives containing data from the servers and users. Around 90 percent of users were Brazilian customers, although other nationalities were also present, including customers from Peru,” Sen told The Hacker News.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Consumers can be surprisingly finicky these days when it comes to their personal identifiable data (PII), and additional security measures can strengthen trust at a critical time like this. It’s not all super high-tech either, as the humble phone call still plays a key role in proving identity. Taking Authentication To The Streets.

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MARCH 3, 2020

The appointed organizer for the initiative, SFB Technologies, tapped the Algorand protocol because of its scalability, speed, security and its “ability to effectively implement required compliance controls and the transaction finality needed for a national currency.”

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JUNE 10, 2020

The EU’s investigative unit will form a task force to examine TikTok’s activities across the 27-nation bloc following a request from a lawmaker concerned about its data collection and its security and privacy risks. EU authorities can fine companies for violations under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

Ecuador ’s government has rushed a draft privacy law to Congress after the nation was hit with a massive data breach impacting more than 20 million people. The researchers said they had not stored any of the data or profited from it. And the head of the nation’s Congress has already said the proposal will be fast-tracked.

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JULY 16, 2020

The top court of the 28-nation bloc ruled the transfer of personal data to platforms in the U.S. The decision on Thursday (July 16) ends a data transfer agreement between the EU and the U.S. Companies will have to choose between whether to move personal data to servers in Europe or stop doing business in the region.

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DECEMBER 14, 2020

government agency websites have sent shockwaves throughout the country and the world, raising concerns about the ability of any institution to protect its vital and confidential data. Justice Department, National Security Agency and the White House. Reports of widespread cyberattacks on several U.S. military, along with the U.S.

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MARCH 7, 2019

Data privacy and security is becoming a popular political issue, and the latest proof of that came Thursday (March 7) on Capitol Hill. The hearing took place at a time of increasing scrutiny for online privacy and security. firms were falling victim to online attacks, noting that there were 1,200 data breaches in the U.S.

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Abrigo

APRIL 6, 2022

New Rule Outlines Computer-Security Incident Notification Obligations for Banks Financial institutions and their service providers should prepare to meet new computer-security notice requirements by May 1, 2022. . Computer-security incident notifications required. Expand and Clarify. What are the new notification requirements?

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MARCH 10, 2020

A Russian national believed to be behind the Deer.io and verified that it was legitimate hacked user data, not fake information. shop to sell data from Myspace and LinkedIn users. Online hacking scandals are prevalent in today’s digital era, with major businesses reporting breaches of their security often.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2020

The parent company of Fidelity Investments , FMR LLC, is launching an independent personal data startup called Akoya in conjunction with The Clearing House (TCH) and 11 of its member banks, Fidelity announced on Thursday (Feb. The new network boosts financial system security as it speeds up API adoption. Bank and Wells Fargo.

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DECEMBER 26, 2018

According to one security expert, the answer is, unfortunately, yes. A 2017 Annual Cybersecurity Report (ACR) from Cisco found companies that suffer a data breach could have customer, opportunity and revenue losses exceeding 20 percent. Will the New Year bring an increase in cyberattacks? According to Robert Ackerman, Jr.,

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

The National Bank of Canada, the sixth largest lender in Canada, has become the latest high-profile firm to announce a data breach. According to a report in Reuters , the National Bank of Canada said Thursday (Sept. The revelation on the part of National Bank of Canada comes as consumers in the U.S.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2019

India’s Minister of state for electronics and IT (MeitY) has announced that the government is drafting a national framework to expand the deployment of blockchain use cases. Dhotre added that the government is drafting an approach paper on the National Level Blockchain Framework.

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 1, 2022

But as the prevalence of security breaches grows, so do the opportunities for community banks to position themselves as guardians of their customers’ personal data through compliance, technology and relationship building. Data privacy and security is a hot topic and is only getting hotter. By Katie Kuehner-Hebert.

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AUGUST 4, 2022

Eight US national trade groups have petitioned the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to initiate a rulemaking to strengthen the privacy and security of consumer financial data held by fintechs, bigtech, and data aggregators, the official press release states.

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APRIL 26, 2016

Bitstamp has stamped its name in the record books in the EU for being the first company of its kind to secure a national license to operate as a bitcoin exchange. “This is an unprecedented moment for the bitcoin and brings with it a new era of security and transparency to the industry,” the company wrote on its blog.

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OCTOBER 21, 2020

The pandemic has shifted priorities in regulatory policy tied to the financial services industry — and for Europe, it is heralding the emergence of a data-driven economy. Maniati noted the transformation had been in place well before COVID and has stretched back over five years, but has seen some urgency in recent months.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

It’s National Cyber Security Awareness Month, and industry leaders are zeroing in on some of the most vulnerable targets of cyber scams: small businesses. As lawmakers ponder this risk, PYMNTS highlights some of the newest data points uncovered by researchers examining small business cybersecurity. Stronger passwords.

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JUNE 3, 2016

Check out who secured venture capital in our breakdown below. Enterprise Security. Ionic Security. It may have begun as a way for individuals to take control of the data they share on social media sites, but Ionic Security has begun to shift its focus to securing the data of enterprises and their employees.

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AUGUST 9, 2020

A plan by India to regulate what it terms “non-personal” data has roiled the executives of Big Tech companies like Amazon , Facebook and Google and advocates for freedom and competition in business, Reuters reported. The idea is for the companies to share data so as to spur research, national security and policymaking.

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DECEMBER 9, 2020

In today’s top news, cybersecurity firm FireEye announced that it had been hacked by a suspected nation-state, and PayPal’s iZettle added QR code payments to its POS app in the U.K. Cybersecurity Firm FireEye Hacked By Suspected Nation-State. The fraudsters were also allegedly after data from FireEye’s government agency clients.

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APRIL 5, 2016

In the recent instance of the XSS security vulnerabilities that befell the online shopping cart Zen Cart, for example, the company acted quickly to solve its own problem. But the fact is that things don’t always sort themselves out, effectively, in the retail security game. Sometimes, that assumption is accurate.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Failing to prevent a data breach is a surefire way to lose that trust, however. Credit unions possess vast troves of personal information such as credit card data and Social Security numbers that could devastate members if leaked. Data Breaches Within And Without. Credit unions are no strangers to data breaches.

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MAY 1, 2019

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s latest report on data searches – the kind tied to law enforcement activities – has found that warrantless searches are on the rise. phone companies, and it also lets the government secretly access tech firms’ data. million phone records under surveillance, compared to 534.3

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JUNE 17, 2019

Promising as intelligence of things (IoT) solutions are, though, security has been a stumbling block. The June IoT Tracker explores the latest advancements in IoT security and new applications of smart technology. According to the tracker, the global IoT security market is expected to increase by a 35.5

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MAY 19, 2020

BlockFi suffered a “temporary data breach” on May 14 that exposed some customer information, the company reported in an incident report. Multiple crypto operations serving the country, however, are legally based in other nations.

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JANUARY 30, 2019

Rubrik , an IT security and cloud data management company, has suffered a massive data leak. 29) after being alerted to the leak , which was discovered by security researcher Oliver Hough. National Health Service and Homeland Security, and other federal government departments are also on its client roster.

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MARCH 12, 2020

Last year, credit card data was stolen from online stores hosted by eCommerce software, hosting and support company Volusion. Now, that data has appeared for sale on the dark web, according to reports. The stolen card data was uploaded about one month later, on a dark web hacking forum, and it’s been for sale since then.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Synchrony Financial said a message was erroneously sent to customers about an Amazon.com card and that a data breach had not occurred, according to a report by Reuters. We have confirmed none of your personal data was compromised,” the financial services company said in an email to customers. On Monday (Nov.

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APRIL 13, 2020

Prepare for a big week of retail data, all of it unprecedented in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. Starting with the Commerce Department retail sales data on Wednesday, retailers will get a sense of how much consumers are spending and the retailers they are spending with. Expect a steep drop in March spend due to the COVID-19 crisis.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Last week, the Fed’s Secure Payments Task Force called for comment from industry stakeholders about what challenges they face when it comes to payments security. “The Secure Payments Task Force is particularly interested in understanding any barriers that may exist to implementing the planned solutions.”

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JANUARY 28, 2020

WhatsApp, which boasts end-to-end encryption and high-level security, disclosed 12 vulnerabilities in 2019, seven of which were described as critical, according to a report by the Financial Times. National Vulnerability Database, which is run by the U.S. Some say that Facebook was trying to blame Apple for the issue.

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JANUARY 22, 2020

All four of Greece’s main banking institutions enacted security protocols after a data breach, and consequently cancelled 15,000 consumer cards, according to reports. A key source of the inquiry is whether or not the tourist website follows the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS).

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OCTOBER 13, 2017

When the impact stretches across oceans, nations and demographics, though, and those affected number in the hundreds of millions, a sea change is a-swelling. The proverbial (data) cat is out of the proverbial (ostensibly safe data warehouse) bag. Equifax brings a few key questions to mind. That cat’s never coming back.

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JUNE 13, 2019

It’s undeniably advantageous to the world economy, with a recent study finding that national digital ID systems could induce GDP growth of up to 13 percent. The Drawbacks of Complex Security. AI Solutions for Balancing Security and Convenience. Blockchain-Based Security Methods. More than 4.5

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