SECURITY/RISK

A regional specialty apparel retailer is streamlining the execution of online and mobile transactions.

A major bookseller is acknowledging some of its corporate systems were penetrated in a cyberattack.

H&M has been fined for violating the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). 

Customers plan to spend money online this Black Friday, but take a dim view of e-commerce platforms that sell counterfeit items.

Customer data of less than 200 retailers using the Shopify e-commerce platform may have been exposed in a security incident.

Crime did not pay for a group of defendants who sold counterfeit 3M N95 respirators on Amazon. The defendants - KM Brothers Inc., KMJ Trading Inc., Supreme Sunrise, Inc., and Mao Yu and third-party Zhiju USA, Inc.

Four individuals accused of defrauding Amazon of millions of dollars are facing federal charges, in part due to actions taken by the e-tailer.

Instacart is providing virtual COVID-19 screenings and medical consultations for its shoppers, and also enacting new mask regulations. 

Amazon is reportedly now legally responsible in California for defective products sold by third-party vendors on its site.

Amazon is teaming up with a U.K.-based cosmetics company in a product infringement lawsuit.

Amazon is spreading its “Project Zero” anti-counterfeiting program across the globe. Launched in the U.S. in February 2019, Project Zero provides automated and self-service safeguards against counterfeit goods being sold on Amazon’s online stores.

Fraudsters are pulling off e-commerce scams using popular social media platforms and search engines.