PYMNTS

JULY 12, 2020

The company’s databases were compromised including users’ contact details and email addresses. So far, investigators revealed the unauthorized access to Dunzo’s database may have followed a breach in the servers of a third party, one of its customers. Dunzo has launched an internal investigation, the online news service reported.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

The server held the resumes of job applicants spanning 2014 and 2017, and included private information such as phone numbers, home addresses, email addresses and prior work experience. While there’s no set number on how many users were affected, one folder from May 2017 contained thousands of resumes.

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PYMNTS

JULY 4, 2018

The exchange-traded fund, which was founded in 2014, notched staggering returns of 31 percent following the Equifax data breach in 2017, twice that of the S&P 500 return during that same time period. The ETFMG Prime Cyber Security ETF, for example, has risen 18 percent this year, CNBC reported.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

There are 185 private unicorn companies globally valued at $1B+ as of 2/1/2017, all featured on CB Insight’s real time global unicorn tracker. We used CB Insights database to update our analysis on which investors have backed the most unicorns … Continued.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 24, 2019

The company did not reveal details about the database, length of exposure time or how it was fixed, reporters said. That is 24 percent higher than in 2017. A T-Mobile representative told reporters that the incident affected “less than 1.5 percent” of its roughly 75 million users. million on average for enterprises. SMBs in the U.S.

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Fintech Labs Insights

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

It takes more than just one crystal ball to discern which trends will drive fintech innovation in 2017. ” 3 Key Fintech Predictions for 2017 – Banking.com. ” Top 10 Fintech Predictions for 2017 – Daily Fintech. ” Five fintech trends for 2017 – bobsguide.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

More recently, their complaints have been made more transparent, thanks to the CFPB’s consumer complaint database. As a consequence, we have three credit reporting agencies operating today, who are largely free to do whatever they want with the data they have — consumer complaint database be damned. They are not.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Following our previous mapping of the most well funded startups in each state and most well funded food & beverage startups in each state , we used CB Insights database to identify the most well-funded private fintech startup in each state. FINTECH TRENDS Q3 2017 RESEARCH BRIEFING. Total Equity Funding ($M). LumoXchange. $

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PYMNTS

MARCH 5, 2019

During that time, unauthorized parties had been able to copy and encrypt information that resided in the Starwood database, including around 25.55 In addition to Sorenson, Equifax Chief Executive Mark Begor will also be testifying about company’s 2017 hack that impacted 148 million people. million passport numbers, 5.25 billion.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Blockchain seemed to be stuck in pilot phase in 2017, but in 2018, the financial services industry finally saw a stronger flow of real-world, working blockchain applications — many of which targeted pain points in B2B payments, including the time and lack of transparency in cross-border transactions.

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PYMNTS

JULY 2, 2019

In a reported leak of billions of user records in a smart home data breach, researchers have found that a database that belongs to Chinese firm Orvibo has been left open without a password for protection. The research found that shoppers worldwide bought 663 million smart home devices in 2017 and that number is said to rise in 2023 to 1.94

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CB Insights

MARCH 20, 2018

A 2017 documentary co-produced by the Communist Party claimed the country had the largest network of CCTV cameras – 20M – in the world. A simple keyword search on worldwide patent database Espacenet shows how much emphsais China has put on surveillance. China’s plan of action. LLvision builds smart glasses that resemble Google Glass.

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Finovate

APRIL 24, 2024

Founded in 2017, Golden is developing a self-constructing knowledge database used to accelerate discovery and education. The company leverages AI and machine learning to sort through ComplyAdvantage’s database of entities, which is updated continuously to ensure accuracy. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 28, 2019

The affected customer database, however, contained old Incapsula records that only go up to Sept. 15, 2017. “We The company said it is working with forensics experts. Imperva said in a blog post on its website that it learned about the exposure via a third party on Aug.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Based on the company’s investigation, the unauthorized fraudulent access occurred from mid-May through July 2017, Equifax said in a news release. 1,780,000 | Combined dollar amount Equifax execs unloaded before revealing fraudulent activity on company consumer and commercial credit reporting databases. 182,000 | U.S.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JANUARY 11, 2017

In what The New York Times is calling The Great AI Awakening and Forbes has dubbed The Year of AI , 2017 is shaping up to be obsessively focused on artificial intelligence, a field that has been around for awhile (remember playing checkers against a computer?) The post A Fintech Filter for AI in 2017 appeared first on Finovate.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MARCH 23, 2017

FinDEVr 2017 New York is in the books. MapD for its database and visualization layer that transforms Big Data into immersive, instantaneous, and actionable analytics. Visit our FinDEVr London 2017 page for more information. The post The Favorites of FinDEVr 2017 New York appeared first on Finovate.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 5, 2020

The system will include five databases to keep track of trade companies, goods, logistics, contracts, and documents and certificates, and will help manage trade and reduce the time it takes to complete tasks related to those matters.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Buyers can easily view, pay, and track their orders, and can chat with others about potential JoyRuns,” the company said in its 2017 funding release. Kinesis, as described on the AWS site, is “a massively scalable and durable real-time data streaming service.

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CB Insights

JULY 18, 2017

We used the CB Insights database to map the most well-funded company in each of 35 cities in Greater Los Angeles (see the list below) based on disclosed equity funding. Collectively, the startups on our map have raised over $4B in disclosed equity funding as of 7/14/2017. (We Early-Stage Startup Trends. See the infographic below.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 1, 2019

Although the investigation came around at the same time a Seattle woman hacked a database of credit-card issuer Capital One Financial that was stored on the eCommerce giant’s cloud server, examiners were reportedly not aware of the breach when they visited Amazon’s Virginia facility.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 5, 2018

29, 2017, calls for financial institutions that originate ACH payments to register their third-party sender customers through the NACHA Risk Management Portal. NACHA , the electronic payments association, announced that banks and credit unions have registered 9,403 third-party senders as of the March 1, 2018 deadline.

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CB Insights

JULY 25, 2017

As of 7/25/2017, six private US companies are worth over $10B. Using the CB Insights database and our real-time global unicorn tracker , we visualized the locations of every US-based unicorn in the map below. The United States is home to 105 unicorn companies valued at $1B+. Download the PDF for all the data behind the unicorn club.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

According to our 2017 CB Insights Corporate Venture Capital Report , the number of new corporate venture capital firms making first-time investments reached record levels in 2017. Below, we highlighted the number of CVCs making investments on a quarterly basis as well as the most active CVCs globally in 2017. Google Ventures.

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Since January 2017, roughly 6 billion confidential digital records have been stolen worldwide. We used the CB Insights database to identify 30+ startups enhancing enterprise data security across 8 categories, including homomorphic encryption, data access management, and more. But now, startups are rising to the challenge.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

As had been reported, the project, which traces its genesis to 2017, would have let customers send and receive funds across virtual accounts. The startup uses sharding to break databases into units, and to help with scaling issues that typically are the hallmarks of blockchain. The banks had been in partnership with Fujitsu.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Using the CB Insights database, we surfaced 7 startups capitalizing on the potential for small-sats to transform space exploration and intelligence. (We Latest Round: Series C | $70M | Nov 2017. Latest Round: Corporate Minority | $40.7M | September 2017. Latest Round: Series B | $27M | June 2017. Total Funding: $139.5M.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 10, 2017

29 percent | Percentage by which Emerging Markets Equity rose during the year ending on January 31, 2017. 40,500 | Number of securities in Acadian Asset Management’s proprietary database. billion | Worth of Acadian Asset Management’s largest strategy, Emerging Markets Equity.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Securities and Exchange Commission’s EDGAR database. District Court in Newark, New Jersey, the Ukrainian computer hacker, Oleksandr Ieremenko, 27, of Kiev, and others working with him were charged with hacking an SEC database, getting their hands on thousands of “test filings” that included around 157 earnings announcements.

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CB Insights

AUGUST 16, 2017

The team leveraged CB Insights’ funding and investor data, media trackers, patents database, and startup momentum algorithms to dive into trends including: Startups using blockchain to reduce fraud in real estate and expedite transfer of real estate ownership. Emerging Technology Trends: 2017 Intern Presentation from CB Insights.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MARCH 3, 2017

Likefolio , a website that uses social media connections to introduce investing concepts, recently began licensing its Brand Mapping Database. The database, which maps every publicly-owned brand and product, is aimed to help investors and financial research firms discover new insights.

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PYMNTS

MAY 23, 2018

South Africa, following a massive breach in October 2017, suffered another attack, with the personal records of 934,000 South Africans being leaked. According to news from The Next Web , the data that was leaked includes national identity numbers, email addresses, full names and text passwords for traffic fines.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Park and those organizations allegedly were behind the malware used in the 2017 WannaCry 2.0 That particular file would ordinarily prevent changes to the database that recorded all SWIFT messages exchanged by the bank, but once it was modified or ‘patched,’ the subjects were able to access and modify the database.”.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 11, 2019

In order to provide this technology, the firm uses facial scans held in a Ministry of Public Security database taken from legal identification files on about 1.3 In 2017, the firm notched $460 million in venture capital funding, led by a Chinese state-owned venture capital fund and the Russia-China Investment Fund.

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CB Insights

APRIL 10, 2018

Amazon started aggressively targeting this vertical in January 2017, when it announced contracts with some of the largest auto parts suppliers in the country. The app stores precise measurements for vehicles in its database.). Get the PDF: The Amazon Strategy Teardown.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The biggest deal was Ledger’s $380M Series C in June, backed in part by Digital Currency Group — the top blockchain investor by deal count since 2017. As of August 2021, 5 different companies in this category raised funding rounds of at least $300M this year: Paxos, BlockFi, Blockchain.com , Fireblocks , and Ledger.

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