Latest American Express news

American Express credit cards exposed in third-party data breach

American Express is warning customers that credit cards were exposed in a third-party data breach after a merchant processor was hacked.
- Lawrence Abrams
- March 04, 2024
- 08:38 AM
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Snapchat, Amex sites abused in Microsoft 365 phishing attacks

Attackers abused open redirects on the websites of Snapchat and American Express in a series of phishing attacks to steal Microsoft 365 credentials.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- August 07, 2022
- 10:12 AM
- 0
American Express down in outage: users report login and payment issues

Yesterday, American Express users across the world including US, UK, and Europe, experienced widespread outages lasting hours, and some users continue to. BleepingComputer was able to briefly reproduce issues right before Amex confirmed partially restoring services.
- Ax Sharma
- April 02, 2022
- 03:55 AM
- 0
Amex fined £90,000 for sending 4 million spam emails in a year

The UK data regulator has fined American Express (Amex) £90,000 for sending over 4 million spam emails to customers within one year.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- May 23, 2021
- 10:00 AM
- 0
Amex cards removed from Google Pay due to expired certificate

An expired certificate has led to the repeated removal of linked American Express credit cards from user's Google Pay accounts.
- Lawrence Abrams
- April 16, 2021
- 09:49 AM
- 0
Hacker posts data of 10,000 American Express accounts for free

A threat actor has posted data of 10,000 American Express credit card holders on a hacker forum for free. In the same forum post, the actor is also claiming to sell more data of Mexican banking customers of American Express, Santander, and Banamex.
- Ax Sharma
- January 05, 2021
- 09:05 AM
- 0
Amex, Chase Fraud Protection Emails Used as Clever Phishing Lure

A very clever phishing campaign is underway that pretends to be fraud protection emails from American Express and Chase that ask you to confirm if the listed credit card transactions are legitimate.
- Lawrence Abrams
- February 11, 2020
- 06:37 PM
- 1
PayPal, American Express Phishing Kits Added to 16Shop Service

The 16Shop phishing kit distribution network has expanded its portfolio with new templates that target PayPal and American Express users.
- Ionut Ilascu
- January 25, 2020
- 12:30 PM
- 0
American Express Customer Info Accessed by Employee for Possible Fraud

An American Express employee is being investigated for accessing card holder information and potentially using it to open accounts at other financial institutions.
- Lawrence Abrams
- October 02, 2019
- 08:35 AM
- 3
American Express Customers Targeted by Novel Phishing Attack

A phishing attack using a novel technique to steal credentials from American Express customers was recently found in an email inbox protected using Microsoft's Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) by Cofense Phishing Defense Center researchers.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- July 16, 2019
- 05:22 PM
- 0
Netflix and AMEX Customers Actively Targeted by Phishing Campaigns

Two ongoing phishing campaigns are actively targeting Netflix and American Express customers to steal credit card and social security information as discovered by the Office 365 Threat Research team during the weekend.
- Sergiu Gatlan
- March 19, 2019
- 05:28 PM
- 0
Beware of American Express Emails With Attached Phishing Form

A phishing campaign is underway that pretends to be from American Express and states that there is a security issue with your credit card. It then prompts you to open an attached HTML phishing form that will send the inputted information back to the scammers.
- Lawrence Abrams
- December 29, 2018
- 12:13 PM
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