800+ Data Breaches and Over 53 Million Consumers Compromised in the First Half of 2022
After the first half of 2022, the number of data breaches for the year is on pace to fall below the all-time high set in 2021, but still...
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Justin McDonald
- Jul 27
- 1 min
New White Paper: Detecting Fraud and Abuse at Account Opening
The latest free white paper from The Fraud Practice discusses the different types of attacks and fraud that organizations face at the...
Justin McDonald
- Jul 20
- 1 min
The Average Cost of a Data Breach has Doubled Since 2018
The average cost of a data breach including consumer identity information in the United States reached $9.5 million in 2021, up 16...
Justin McDonald
- May 24
- 1 min
Digital Wallet Transactions to Reach $7.5 Trillion in 2022, Fraudsters Likely to Follow the Money
A recent study from Juniper Research forecasts substantial growth in payments made from digital wallets with increasing acceptance at...
Fraud Practice
- Nov 5, 2021
- 2 min
Fraud This Holiday Season Could be Even More Difficult to Detect as Fraud Rings Expand Mule Networks
Fraudsters use money mules for laundering as well as to receive and reship goods purchased with stolen identities. A large mule network...
Fraud Practice
- Nov 5, 2021
- 2 min
Keeping Up with the New Normal in eCommerce, Fraud and Payments
A common theme throughout 2020 has been the acceleration of digital adoption across both businesses and consumers. We take a look at the...
Fraud Practice
- Nov 5, 2021
- 2 min
Processors Prepare for Increasing Merchant Chargeback Losses and Look to Increase Reserves
A FinTech lawyer reported that as many as one-fifth of his merchant clients have been contacted by their payment processors about the...
Fraud Practice
- Nov 5, 2021
- 2 min
Custom Modeling for Risk Management Requires Human Element, Not Just AI
While there is value in leveraging Artificial Intelligence for modeling and analytics to detect cyber threats and fraud, security...
Fraud Practice
- Nov 5, 2021
- 3 min
Nearly Nine-in-Ten Organizations Experienced Spear Phishing Attacks; Over Half Fell Victim in 2019
According to a survey of over 600 IT security professionals across seven countries, 88 percent of organizations saw spear phishing...
Fraud Practice
- Nov 5, 2021
- 3 min
Visa to Increase Interchange Fees for CNP Transactions this April
After leaving interchange rates mostly unchanged for the past decade, Visa sent a letter to partner banks outlining the coming changes to...
Fraud Practice
- Nov 5, 2021
- 1 min
Cyber Weekend Fraud Declines See 30% Increase Year-Over-Year and 50% Increase Relative Rest of Year
The number of order attempts declined for suspected fraud increased by nearly 30 percent year-over-year for orders between Thanksgiving...
Fraud Practice
- Nov 5, 2021
- 2 min
Online Order Returns Spike Post Holidays
Private courier UPS has declared January 2nd National Returns Day, the busiest package return day of the year, and prepared to handle...
Fraud Practice
- Nov 5, 2021
- 2 min
Winners and Losers in the Largest US Online Holiday Shopping Season Yet
Mobile and eCommerce shopping hit new highs this holiday season as Cyber Monday yet again beat its own record as the largest online...
Fraud Practice
- Nov 5, 2021
- 2 min
Federal Reserve to Launch Real-Time Payments System called FedNow by 2024
The U.S. Central Bank will embark on its biggest investment in payments since becoming an ACH operator more than forty years ago. FedNow...
Fraud Practice
- Nov 5, 2021
- 1 min
Klarna Becomes Largest Private FinTech Company in Europe Following $460 Million Funding Round
Klarna, a payment company offering micro credit for online transactions like PayPal Credit, serves consumers and merchants in Europe and...
Fraud Practice
- Nov 5, 2021
- 1 min
Nearly Four Thousand Data Breaches, Four Billion Records Compromised in First Half of 2019
More than 3,800 data breaches occurred in the first half of this year, a 54 percent increase from the first half of 2018. The number of...
Fraud Practice
- Nov 5, 2021
- 1 min
JP Morgan to Discontinue Chase Pay for Mobile Contactless Payments
Unable to catch up to Apple, Samsung or Google Play, Chase Pay was used by less than 10 percent of Chase cardholders in the last 90 days,...
Fraud Practice
- Nov 5, 2021
- 2 min
More than 40 States Have Enacted Economic Nexus Legislation to Collect Online Sales Tax
Forty-two states plus the District of Columbia have laws in place, already in effect or scheduled to take effect soon, that increase the...
Fraud Practice
- Nov 5, 2021
- 2 min
Secure Consumer Authentication (SCA) Required for Intra-European eCommerce Beginning September
To maintain compliance with the European Union’s Second Payment Services Directive (PSD2), merchants in Europe will have to perform...
Fraud Practice
- Nov 5, 2021
- 2 min
Mortgage Application Fraud Increases in First Quarter of 2019
as Fraudsters Become More Sophisticated in How They Fudge Their Income The National Mortgage Application Fraud Risk Index maintained by...