banking
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Report: Firm Tracking Purchase, Transaction Histories Of Millions Maybe Not Really Anonymising Them
The nation’s largest financial data broker, Yodlee,holds extensive and supposedly anonymised banking and credit card transaction histories on millions of Americans. Internal documents obtained by Motherboard, however, appear to indicate that Yodlee clients could potentially de-anonymize those records by simply downloading a giant text file and poking around in it for a while.
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Employees Continued To Get Screwed By MyPayrollHR Fiasco
When U.S.-based cloud payroll provider MyPayrollHR abruptly closed its doors amid fraud allegations last month, it sent its roughly 1,000 clients, many of them small businesses, into disarray as employees saw their paychecks disappear from their accounts. The fallout continued this week after MyPayrollHR’s third-party processor, Cachet Financial Services, announced it was no longer handling…
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What Would Happen If The Whole Internet Just Shut Down All Of A Sudden?
A world in which the internet suddenly stops: surely the TV show’s already in development. Sprawling cast, gorgeous visuals, tediously on-the-nose themes. Some handsome B-lister tearing around the country in pursuit of his wayward kids, or the shadowy sect that pulled the plug in the first place. A patch of prairie in Kansas with a…
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China Warns Of ‘Grave Consequences’ Over Arrest Of Huawei Executive
China has warned the Canadian ambassador that if Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer of telecom and tech giant Huawei, is not released, there will be “grave consequences,” CBS News reported on Sunday.