According to the 2017 Debit Issuer Study, U.S. financial institutions substantially increased issuance of chip debit cards in 2016 and experienced reduced fraud losses.

The number of identity fraud victims increased by 16 percent (rising to 15.4 million U.S. consumers) in the last year.

Fraudulent transactions where a credit card is not physically presented to a merchant—increased significantly from Black Friday to Cyber Monday 2016 when compared to the same period in past years.

One cyber company is predicting a significant increase in card-not-present fraud—fraudulent transactions where a credit card is not physically presented to a merchant—from Black Friday to Cyber Monday when compared to past years.

Delaware and Florida are home to the highest rates of attempted credit card fraud, while Alaskans are the most likely to have their card details used fraudsters, according to a new report.

Thirty percent of consumers globally have experienced card fraud in the past five years, according to new global benchmark data from ACI Worldwide and Aite Group.

Reducing credit and debit card fraud by implementing EMV chip card acceptance has become retailers’ top payment issue in 2016, but retailers are also busy with new data security enhancements such as point-to-point encryption and tokenization to better protect payment card data.

Thirty percent of consumers globally have experienced card fraud in the past five years.

Retail fraud comes in many shapes and sizes and is especially rampant during the holiday season when online and in-store traffic grows significantly.
 

A U.S. appeals court said the FTC has authority to regulate corporate cybersecurity.