The incident, which may have exposed customers’ account information to other customers, was caused by a technical glitch, the company wrote in a notice posted on a state attorney general's website.

Online attacks on travel and other nonfinancial industries grew at a much faster rate in the second quarter than those on financial services companies. Yet hackers pose considerable risk to banks and credit unions, especially in payments.

The Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council says bank accounts and information systems have become more vulnerable as mobile and other technologies have expanded. It issued guidelines on detailed steps financial institutions should take to heighten security.

Companies like Arkose Labs say they're so confident in their ability to deter the attacks — automated attempts to break into online banking sites using stolen usernames and passwords — that they can offer banks a warranty.

Citigroup’s chief financial officer said China’s recent moves to crack down on companies isn’t likely to harm the bank’s business across the Asia-Pacific region.

Salt Labs researchers exploited four types of vulnerabilities in the application programming interfaces of a large financial company. Their findings contradict conventional wisdom about the safety of APIs in the sharing of consumer data.

Morgan Stanley on Thursday disclosed that a data breach at one of its contractors led to the theft of personal information about some customers whose stock accounts had gone dormant.

The government helped the gas pipeline operator recoup some of the funds it paid to cyberthieves, but that's unlikely to happen often. Banks should shore up password security to minimize risk and be willing to reject hackers' demands in the event of a breach.

A slew of websites operated by financial institutions, governments and airlines including Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing and Australia’s central bank went down briefly Thursday in the second global internet outage in two weeks.

Before its disappearance, Avaddon said it hacked Valley National Bank's network and threatened to leak sensitive data. The bank is still investigating.