Data breaches

6 banking questions for the next Democratic debate

08/11/19

From housing finance to Facebook’s crypto plans, moderators questioning the presidential candidates in Texas next month would have no shortage of financial policy topics from which to pick.

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Warren presses Capital One CEO for more details about breach

08/08/19

The Massachusetts senator asked Richard Fairbank in a letter why the bank didn’t detect the breach for nearly four months and how it plans to prevent future cyber intrusions.

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The JPM-OnDeck split, Truist's tech plans, Capital One's breach: Top stories of the week

08/02/19

JPMorgan Chase ends business loan partnership with OnDeck; Truist out to prove it can best the megabanks in tech; Capital One's data breach was bad, but it could've been worse; and more from this week's most-read stories.

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'Another day, another hack': Comments of the week

08/01/19

Readers react to Capital One's massive data breach, raise alarm to The Bancorp's expansion in CRE securitizations, defend fintechs offering retirement plans and more.

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Republican lawmakers target Amazon, Capital One over data breach

08/01/19

Three GOP members of Congress have sent letters to the companies requesting staff-level briefings on the breach in which an ex-employee of Amazon Web Services illegally accessed data of more than 100 million people who have or applied for Capital One credit cards.

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Capital One breach clouds the cloud; Libra's silver lining

07/31/19

The hack prompts renewed concerns about security of data held in the cloud; lawmakers acknowledge that Facebook’s proposed Libra cryptocurrency could have applications for law enforcement.

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Capital One’s data breach was bad. It could’ve been worse

07/30/19

Though involving an eye-popping 106 million credit card applicants' information, Capital One's breach was also unusual in a number of ways, including that it was quickly caught through a responsible disclosure program run by the bank.

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Capital One systems breached by Seattle woman, U.S. says

07/29/19

Capital One Financial Corp. lost data from as many as tens of millions of credit card applications after a Seattle woman hacked into a cloud-computing company server, federal prosecutors in Seattle said.

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UBS rebounds; Metro Bank looks to unload problem loans

07/23/19

Bank posts its best second quarter since 2010 after a disappointing Q1; Cerberus in talks to buy loans at the center of a major accounting error.

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Equifax agrees to pay $700M to settle breach probe

07/22/19

Equifax Inc. agreed to pay up to $700 million to resolve U.S. federal and state investigations into the 2017 hack that compromised some of the most sensitive information of more than 140 million people.

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