Personal information of some 3.1 million Toyota customers may have been leaked outside the company, the Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) announced on Friday. The announcement comes a few weeks after Toyota Australia said they have been “the victim of an attempted cyber attack”. New breaches The attackers targeted TMC sales subsidiaries (Toyota Tokyo Sales Holdings,…
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— Anti-Corruption News Story Curated by Anti-Corruption Digest International Risk & Compliance News Money laundering accounts for up to 5% of global GDP – or $2tn (£1.5tn) – every year, says the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. So banks and law enforcement agencies are turning to artificial intelligence (AI) to help combat the…
— Anti-Corruption News Story Curated by Anti-Corruption Digest International Risk & Compliance News In January 1865, when Union Gen. William T. Sherman issued an order to allocate 40 acres to each freedman, the black ministers who lobbied for the policy envisioned vibrant, self-governed black agrarian communities dotting the Southern countryside. Unfortunately, President Andrew Johnson’s…
— Anti-Corruption News Story Curated by Anti-Corruption Digest International Risk & Compliance News With vocal skeptics now abundant, the early, easy days of the blockchainrevolution are over. But Ed Felten, a Princeton professor who also served as deputy chief technology officer in the Barack Obama White House, thinks his startup has an answer for some of…
— Anti-Corruption News Story Curated by Anti-Corruption Digest International Risk & Compliance News A Paris criminal court recently convicted Equatorial Guinea’s vice president in absentia of laundering more than US$120 million of his country’s assets in France, and seized his ill-gotten gains. The case, initiated by two French organizations and litigated for a decade, is a first…
— Anti-Corruption News Story Curated by Anti-Corruption Digest International Risk & Compliance News Rabat – The US embassy in Rabat has issued a security alert, upgrading its risk assessment to “Level 2” for possible terrorist attacks in Morocco. The US embassy is warning tourists to be on alert for possible terrorist attacks, especially in areas foreigners…
— Anti-Corruption News Story Curated by Anti-Corruption Digest International Risk & Compliance News China’s ambitions to become a top leader in the railway industry is threatening U.S. national security, according to industry experts and lawmakers. Chinese rail manufacturers have been able to expand quickly globally due to Beijing’s government policies and heavy subsidies. One…
— Anti-Corruption News Story Curated by Anti-Corruption Digest International Risk & Compliance News THE Bahamas was listed among major international money laundering jurisdictions in 2018, a newly released United States Department of State report said, highlighting sources of laundered proceeds included firearms trafficking, human smuggling and tax fraud. #At the time the report was…
— Anti-Corruption News Story Curated by Anti-Corruption Digest International Risk & Compliance News U.S. AND ETHIOPIAN officials are clashing over how to handle the investigation into the crash of a Boeing 737 MAX 8 airline that crashed after takeoff from Addis Ababa on March 10, killing all 157 people on board. U.S. investigators have complained…
