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In this week's issue: a Chip-Card skimmer was uncovered inside an ATM in Mexico, an investigation has been conducted into Carphone Warehouse's data breach, eCommerce sites brace for an increase in fraud, authorities foil a 5-year hacking scheme and in this week's Rippleshot blog post, we take a look into small businesses and how many are unaware of the upcoming EMV shift.

Rippleshot Selected as Finalist in BBVA Open Talent 2015 Competition & ITA CityLIGHTS Awards

Nominations recognize most disruptive and innovative companies in FinTech and Chicago

In this week's issue: the University of Connecticut's cyberintrusion attack originated in China, the FBI issued a warning on DDoS attacks, security researchers have hacked the Square reader,phishing attacks are up 74% in  Q2 of 2015, and we recap the fraud management panel from this week's Retail Reinvention summit featuring Rippleshot CEO, Canh Tran.

This week, industry executives and thought leaders from all across the retail ecosystem gathered in Chicago for Retail Reinvention to discuss the strategic future of retail and payments. R₂, powered by PYMNTS.com, brought the best and brightest together to discuss how emerging payments and technologies from industry heavyweights like Walmart, McDonald's, American Express, Amazon and Target.

In this week's issue: CurrentC Is Ready To Launch, ATM Skimming Up In U.S., Five Men Arrested With Possible Connection To JPMorgan Hack, McLean Hospital Suffers Data Breach and in this week's Rippleshot blog post, we cover the latest updates from the Target data breach lawsuit.

In this week's issue: the UCLA Health system was breached, Ashley Madison confirms that its been hacked, it appears more retailers have been breached due to a third-party vendor, the FTC is going after LifeLock for poor data security and in this week's blog post, liberal card re-issuance is costing financial institutions due to data breaches.

Every day, fraud analysts across the U.S. are stretched razor thin attempting to curtail the ever-growing fight against fraud. The current methods of common point of purchase (CPP) analysis are labor-intensive and time-consuming, that are done in-house via a manual process.

In this week's issue: the Army National Guard discloses a data breach, a California-based hotel group has been breached, Walmart Canada is investigating a potential breach involving it's photocentre, cyber insurance rises in popularity to meet a growing need, and in this week's blog post, we take an in depth look at the upcoming October 2015 EMV deadline.  

In this week's issue:  an Illinois insurer exposes personal data due to a software error, a spyware vendor is the latest victim of a data breach, the Detroit Zoo is investigating a potential data breach, a new study shows security gaps in vendor risk management and in this week's Rippleshot blog post, we put together an infographic with ten data breach statistics that you need to know moving forward.

Back in March of this year, we put together ten data breach statistics that should have your attention, followed shortly there after with ten more statistics that needed your attention. After the publishing of the 2015 Trustwave Global Security Report, and the 2015 Ponemon Institute Cost of A Data Breach Study, we’ve pulled 10 new stats that financial institutions, retailers and cardholders need to be aware of moving forward.

In this week's issue: the Department of Justice is investigating a potential data breach involving an ATF executive, banking malware is getting tougher to block, banks are seeing suspicious activity at Trump Properties locations, JPMorgan Chase has reassigned their CISO a year after data breach, and for this week's Rippleshot content, we look at how hackers steal credit card information and what they do with it after. 

In this week's issue: the Montefiore Health System suffers a data breach, the Office of Personnel Management  data breach went undetected for a year, 15-30 percent of eCommerce sites infected with CISM, a potential breach at Hershey Park may have occured, and in this week's Rippleshot blog post, we take a look at data breaches and small businesses.

In 2013, we saw the start of a series of massive data breaches impacting organizations of all sizes, across a variety of industries. Ranging from retailer heavyweights such as Target, to regional grocery chains like Supervalu. In 2014, we saw organizations like Home Depot, JPMorgan Chase and eBay fall victim to a data breach, compromising a total of roughly 330 million personal records. 

In this week's issue: consumer call scams up are steadily increasing, a data breach was discovered at Fred's Super Dollar, Samsung Galaxy security exploit has been uncovered by security researchers, LastPass suffers a data breach, and for this week's Rippleshot blog post, we recap the Trustwave 2015 Global Security Report.

In this week's issue: the Syrian Electronic Army claims responsibility for the U.S. Army Hack, a strain of POS malware could target any POS system, Eataly NYC confirms data breach, Kaspersky Lab hacked And this week's Rippleshot content, we recap Of The 2015 Ponemon Institute Cost Of A Data Breach Study.