Personally identifiable information

California and others have passed consumer privacy laws, and lawmakers in Congress are beginning to address the issue. Here's an overview of the players and the proposals.

Widespread hacks often make front-page news, while measuring the actual harms to customers when personal financial information is stolen gets little attention.

Widespread hacks often make front-page news, while measuring the actual harms to customers when personal financial information is stolen gets little attention.

U.K.-based Nuggets is integrating its blockchain technology to existing payment rails, creating a system wherein merchants will no longer have to access or store consumers' personal data.

Marriott International Inc. says the number of guest records exposed in a cyber-security breach is lower than it estimated when it disclosed the attack in November.

As perhaps the world's most wide-reaching, comprehensive data protection rule, the General Data Protection Regulation is having a ripple effect that almost seemed inevitable.

Consumers are stuck using outdated or easily compromised means of proving their identities in a world where banks and retailers need something better. Mastercard and Microsoft are teaming up to take on this monumental challenge.

An invisible payment becomes a lot more visible when it’s compromised, making Marriott’s data breach a threat to one of the most important innovations in retail, which should scare everyone from Uber to Amazon.

Self-sovereign identity solutions are becoming increasingly common as credit unions move away from less secure authentication methods.

Fintech developers are trying to monetize data without scaring away privacy-conscious consumers — and, increasingly, to make sure bigger financial companies don't overstep the same boundaries.

A deaf woman who had over £8000 stolen from her bank account by fraudsters has become the latest symbol of the insecure practice of using phone numbers as proof of identity.

The time is now for Congress to enact stricter data security standards that better protect credit unions and consumers.

Technology developers have little choice but to see big data deals like Mastercard’s reported collaboration with Google as an opportunity for deep, actionable analysis, setting aside the chilling effect of privacy concerns and a consumer buy in.

Kevin Jenkins, former managing director of Visa U.K. and Ireland, joined the board of London-based fintech Nuggets to oversee business development for the blockchain-based security provider as it enters the massive mobile payments market in Asia.

Forget the stereotype that a cybercriminal has to be tech-savvy to get the job done. Their true gift is in social engineering.

Fallout from the Equifax breach is coming into clearer focus as more companies begin pinpointing its effects over the last several months.

In the past few years of fighting against cyberattacks, security teams have developed "kill chain" models that document what steps the bad guys take to infiltrate a network and how to thwart them. The problem is, a significant number of data breaches occur from insider threats, which these models often overlook.

Called Mezu, the P2P platform has been live for about a week and uses a location-based code to execute payments, avoiding the need to even share usernames or other identifying information to move money.

A direct correlation between the chip migration and rampant merchant data breaches is hard to prove. But experts say retailers' prioritization of EMV compliance contributed to other payment card security gaps, leading to the current high level of merchant data breaches.

It's a race to the finish line that also affects U.S. companies with European customers. In these final moments, every company must at least show good faith in attempting to follow the law and having procedures and technology in place to do so.