News and coverage of security threats from in-store related theft involving employees, shop-lifting and organized crime, as well as digital issues related to cybersecurity, data breaches and theft.
Legislation has been introduced that targets organized retail crime and would shed light on certain sellers by requiring online retailers to verify high-volume sellers.
Retail shrink totaled $61.7 billion in 2019, up from $50.6 billion the year before, amid rising employee theft, shoplifting and organized retail crime (ORC).
That’s according to the annual National Retail Security Survey released by the National Retail Federation (NRF).
Retailers experienced increased online and e-commerce fraud volumes and monetary losses correlating to a mass shift to online and mobile transactions during the COVID-19 pandemic.
On June 30, 2020—just one day before the most comprehensive privacy law in the United States became enforceable—California Attorney General Xavier Becerra released an alert reminding his state’s residents of their rights under that law, the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA).
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Amazon customers in 12 countries will have their stored card credentials tokenized by Mastercard.
Tokenization replaces a consumer’s physical card number with a token, which is payment information unique to each individual transaction that can be used only by the merchant requesting it.
Six former eBay security personnel, including two high-level executives, are accused of conspiring against a Massachusetts couple who criticized the company online.
According to the Boston Globe, James Baugh, former eBay senior director of safety & security, David Harville, former eBay direc
Amazon is rolling out a new solution that provides employees live feedback on their distance from other workers.
The e-tail giant is introducing an in-house-developed technology that applies artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to the camera footage in its buildings to help sit
