Ben Woolsey was a full-time Associate Editorial Director at Investopedia, focusing on financial products and services. He has worked in marketing, operations, and content management roles for banks, ...

Hackers hope to have played their stolen cards right by asking $130 million on the Joker's Stash dark market store There is no shortage of places within the internet's dark market where stolen credit ...

A massive database storing millions of credit card transactions has been secured after spending close to three weeks exposed publicly to the internet. The database belongs to Paay, a card payments ...

Regular readers of this column are aware that I am a proponent of getting rid of bad database standards. But sometimes it can be difficult to determine if a particular standard is bad, or just a lot ...