RiskIQ, the global leader in digital risk management, today revealed that its researchers traced the breach of 380,000 sets of payment information belonging to customers of British Airways to Magecart, the credit-card skimming group made infamous for its July breach of Ticketmaster.

FCA chair Charles Randall has warned that the UK will be unable to manage the risks of financial crime under a no-deal Brexit, emphasising the critical role played by cross-border data sharing agreements with EU member states.

The Russian hacker behind the largest theft of customer data from a US financial institution in history has been extradited to the US to face multiple charges of computer fraud.

British Airways has been hacked, compromising the card details of hundreds of thousands of customers who used its website and app over a two-week period.
Alex Cruz, BA's boss says that the website suffered a "sophisticated, malicious criminal attack".

The Association of National Numbering Agencies (Anna) and the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (Gleif) have inked a deal to link International Securities Identification Numbers (Isins) and Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs) in an effort to improve exposure management between trading counterparties.

The infamous Cobalt hacking group, responsible for hundreds of millions of dollars of damages to financial institutions, appears to be embarking on a new campaign.
According to researchers at security firm Netscout, the crooks have already targeted Russia's NS Bank and Romania's Patria Bank with their latest scam.

Both UK and European banks are separately looking at projects to design an early warning system using market data to mitigate the threat of major misconduct or the beginning of the next financial crisis.