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News/Legal
Two former federal agents have been charged with stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of bitcoin during the investigation of the Silk Road dark web marketplace.
30 March 2015
A former IT executive at Commonwealth Bank of Australia has been charged with bribery over payments he allegedly received from a US tech vendor.
18 March 2015
Ross Ulbricht could face life in prison after being found guilty of seven charges related to his running of the Silk Road, a dark web bazaar where shoppers bought and sold illegal goods with bitcoin.
04 February 2015
New York's Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is ratcheting up the pressure on Barclays Bank as he expands his lawsuit accusing the bank of fraud in the operation of its US dark pool.
22 January 2015
Google is suing Visa and MasterCard over the card giants' interchange fees, alleging that they violated federal antitrust law.
06 January 2015
A US judge has given financial institutions the go-ahead to proceed with their lawsuit against Target over losses associated with last year's data breach at the retailer.
03 December 2014
Company update/Legal
Today the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is proposing strong, new federal consumer protections for the prepaid market.
13 November 2014
A Russian man accused of hacking into point-of-sale terminals and selling stolen card data on online forums has had a batch of new charges thrown at him ahead of his trial in a US court next month.
10 October 2014
MasterCard has lost a seven-year battle with the European Commission over the validity of its interchange fees for cross-border card payments, following a decisive judgement at the EU's highest court.
11 September 2014
Online army bank USAA and mobile cheque imaging outfit Mitek Systems have settled a lawsuit that has been running since 2012.
05 September 2014
Members of a gang which used ATM spy cameras and skimmers to steal the card details of 36,000 people across the UK have been jailed.
22 August 2014
The Royal Bank of Scotland has reached a settlement that lets it use critical trade finance software from vendor Complex Systems that a US judge had banned it from over copyright infringement.
21 August 2014
A manager at Liberty Reserve, a digital currency outfit described by authorities as the criminal underworld's "bank of choice", has pleaded guilty to money laundering charges.
18 August 2014
A man who took a decidedly low-tech approach to theft by using a hammer to smash his way to the cash inside an ATM has been caught thanks to social media.
13 August 2014
A US man has admitted leading a stolen credit card trafficking ring that racked up fraud losses of more than $23 million.
12 August 2014
A Russian man has pleaded not guilty in a US court to charges that he hacked into point-of-sale terminals and sold stolen card data on online forums.
11 August 2014
Barclays has filed a motion seeking to throw out a lawsuit from the New York Attorney General accusing the bank of deceptively luring unwary investors to a dark pool that was actually being run for the benefit of predatory high-frequency traders.
24 July 2014
European authorities say they have dismantled a Romanian-dominated cybercrime network that used a host of tactics to steal more than EUR2 million.
18 July 2014
Goldman Sachs has gone to court to get Google to delete an email containing "highly confidential" client data because it was sent to the wrong recipient.
03 July 2014
The US Supreme Court has found in favour of CLS Bank in a long-running patent dispute with Alice Corporation over the abstract notion of intermediated settlement.
19 June 2014
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