Data breaches

A new regulation in the Golden State could provide a de facto national standard as Congress continues to stall on data breach legislation.

Lawmakers must hold merchants accountable when credit unions are left cleaning up the mess after data breaches.

Online retailers must accept hacking, malware and phishing as a reality of doing business in our digital world, but tokenization can make the prize less worthy for crooks, according to André Stoorvogel, director of product marketing for Rambus Payments.

Equifax's massive breach and Facebook's scandals have made data privacy a big issue for state and federal lawmakers. Here's why banks need to be worried.

Leading a credit union can be exhausting. Implementing these best practices can help ease the burden.

Unauthorized exposure of any type of customer data, for any period of time, is a serious issue, writes Carl Wright, chief commercial officer of AttackIQ.

The Credit Union National Association and several institutions sued the fast food business after a data breach in 2016.

The top Republican and Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee are asking for stakeholders to weigh in on data collection issues as lawmakers consider legislative responses to recent breaches.

As another possible shutdown looms, concerns about furloughed workers’ credit histories have shifted the reform discussion away from data security.

It’s past time for every organization handling sensitive data to lock down their security, and to stop relying personally identifiable information to verify users, writes Ryan Wilk, vice president of customer success for NuData Security.