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29 Jul 7.5 Million Users Exposed By Dave Banking Security Breach

Posted at 11:46h in Banks & Fees, Business, Credit Cards, Data Breach, New Technology, Payments Security by Eric

Dave, the personal finance app and challenger bank, announced a security breach this Saturday. Dave is a unicorn tech company leading as a US challenger bank that offers free overdraft cash, budgeting, credit building and more. Approximately 7.5 million Dave users had their information exposed on a...

31 Jul What Businesses And Consumers Should Know About The Capital One Breach

Posted at 22:27h in Banks & Fees, Credit Cards, Data Breach, News by Eric

Yesterday, a week after Equifax reached a whopping $650 million dollar settlement from their 2017 breach, Capital One disclosed in a press release that it suffered a massive data breach exposing the personal information of about 100 million Americans and 6 million Canadians. Again, another huge...

03 May 4 of 5 Company Breaches Due To Poor Passwords

Posted at 13:02h in Payments Security, PCI Compliance by Eric

image from thesslstore A leading cause of business payment data breaches are the use of default or weak passwords. An astonishing 81% of company data breaches are due to poor passwords according to the 2018 Verizon Data Breach investigations Report (New report anticipated soon). Many employees...

29 Jul The DNC Email Hack: How Charities Can Keep Their Information Secure

Posted at 14:50h in Credit Cards, Ecommerce, News, PCI Compliance by Eric

The American Democratic National Convention kicked off this week amidst the release of 20,000 of their emails by Wikileaks. In addition to adding fuel to allegations that the DNC had unfairly worked against runner-up candidate Bernie Sanders, thousands of social insurance, passport numbers, and credit card...

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29 Jul 7.5 Million Users Exposed By Dave Banking Security Breach

31 Jul What Businesses And Consumers Should Know About The Capital One Breach

03 May 4 of 5 Company Breaches Due To Poor Passwords

29 Jul The DNC Email Hack: How Charities Can Keep Their Information Secure