Tag: CITIGROUP

A cyber-attack on an online marketing firm has impacted a wide array of companies and customers in what could be the largest data breach in U.S. history. The online marketer, Epsilon, sends out more than 40 billion email ads and offers each year, typically to users who register with a company's website, or give their email addresses while shopping online. On Friday, Epsilon announced that a ...

Well, it looks like Wall Street's finally cleaning up its game. Don't misunderstand; investment bankers will still find new and unctuous ways to make money in a thin economy. But, from now on, employees at one gilded corporation will be forced to use slightly less colorful language when sending celebratory e-mails about their year-end bonuses. According to the Wall Street Journal, bigwigs at ...

As mobile banking becomes more popular, security threats will grow -- unless banking institutions keep a close watch on their customers' personal information. According to The Wall Street Journal, users of Citibank's iPhone application were recently exposed to a security threat because a previous version of the app had stored personal information -- including account numbers, bill payments and ...

It's no secret that cyber attackers are striking at an alarming rate -- from breaching government computers to stealing millions from ATMs. Now, The Wall Street Journal reports that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is investigating the cyber theft of tens of millions of dollars from banking and insurance giant Citigroup, Inc. Anonymous government officials told the Journal that the ...