Tag: Cyber attacks

ICBA sues Equifax over data breach

The Independent Community Bankers of America has filed a lawsuit against Equifax in hopes of compensating small banks for a recent data breach that potentially affected more than 140 million people. The ICBA, which filed its lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, said in a press release that it wants…
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November 28, 2017 0

The internet name many banks are afraid to use

After Farmers & Merchants State Bank switched its internet domain from dot-com to dot-bank, the Archbold, Ohio-based bank received a handful of calls from customers wondering where its website had gone. The $1 billion-asset bank also noted some assumed when a sentence ended “.bank.” in its promotional materials, the last period was part of the…
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November 11, 2017 0