Experian agrees to acquire Brazilian fraud detection provider ClearSale for $350M; Brazilian regulators would have to approve, and are expected to in H1 2025
Credit data company Experian has agreed to buy Brazilian digital fraud prevention provider ClearSale for $350M; the deal is expected to close in H1 2025
Researchers bought 228 phones from PropertyRoom.com, a top auction house for US police departments, and found many had not been wiped and had no PIN or passcode
Countless smartphones seized in arrests and searches by police forces across the United States are being auctioned online without … Mastodon: @briankrebs@infosec.exchange . Tweets: @mattjay , @distrib...
Up until late December 2022, hackers were using a flaw in Experian's site to get anyone's entire credit report using only their name, address, birthday, and SSN
Reports of hijacked accounts and analysis of Experian's authentication flow reveal poor security at the credit bureau, after PIN reset flaws were found in 2021
Sardine, which offers fintechs real-time fraud scores based on users' identities, devices, and behavior, raises a $19.5M Series A from a16z, NYCA, and Experian
I am excited to announce our investment in Sardine - aptly named for the … Bhushan Akolkar / Coinspeaker : Crypto Compliance Platform Sardine Secures $19.5M in Funding Led by Andreessen Horowitz Busin...
Experian South Africa CEO claims someone posing as a client tricked the company into giving up personal information of an estimated 24M SA citizens in May
Experian South Africa CEO Ferdie Pieterse downplayed the seriousness of a data breach at his company which exposed the personal details of 23.4 million South Africans.
Financial services marketplace CompareAsiaGroup, which claims 60M users in Asia, raises $20M Series B1 led by Experian, bringing its total raised to $90M+
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Experian, Equifax, and TransUnion gather “alternative” credit data like rental payments to expand credit to more people, but it may hurt those same people, too
Steven Melendez / Fast Company : Tweets: @pasternack Tweets: Alex P. / @pasternack : 2 years after the Equifax breach, the giant credit bureaus are increasingly mining whole new mountains of your *al...
UK's Privacy International files complaints against Oracle, Acxiom, Criteo, Quantcast, Tapad, Equifax, and Experian over potential GDPR violations
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