Data security

To combat cybercriminals, banks and credit unions turn to white-hat hackers to uncover system vulnerabilities. But what motivates these computer whizzes can be surprising.

The personal financial management app, which has been downloaded 5 million times, was letting some users view emails and other personal information of other customers.

Derivatives markets were hobbled for several days by hackers using malware from LockBit, who said ION paid the ransom.

The top U.S. derivatives watchdog wants new cybersecurity rules as a recent attack on the software company ION Trading U.K. continues to roil the industry.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.'s Office of Inspector General found a number of weaknesses in the agency's cyber risk examination program.

While most distributed denial-of-service attacks against U.S. banks and credit unions result in little to no disruption, they can chip away at reputations if left unchecked.

Rusty Haferkamp, the head of IT at Central National Bank in Waco, Texas, discusses his vigilant approach to protecting his bank from cyberattacks.

Banks worried about similar attacks against their own customers can use multifactor authentication and suspicious login detection to reduce risk.

Using compromised identities, fraudsters could simply skip security questions to obtain credit files loaded with sensitive information.

JPMorgan Chase Bank NA will have to face a lawsuit by a unit of the French maker of Ray-Ban glasses that claims the bank ignored suspicious transactions as cybercriminals drained $272 million from its New York bank account.