A Conservative MP has said he will complain to the new press regulator over the “entrapment” by Sunday newspaper which prompted a British government minister to resign.

Milly Dowler’s sister has slammed the “incestuous” relationship between Britain’s top politicians and the press as she spoke out in the wake of the first verdicts in the phone hacking trial.

Debit card usage has more than quadrupled since 2005, with the use of cheques almost halving in the same period.

After almost two decades of being our flexible friend through good times and bad without ever taking the credit, the humble Laser card is to suffer the ultimate rejection.

A fresh appeal has been maed for people to hide their PIN when using ATMs.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has called on financial regulators and firms to put safeguards in place to protect people’s bank accounts.

Suspected hackers who stole credit card details of hundreds of thousands of people are likely based overseas, according to the garda commissioner.

Electricity customers have become the latest to fall prey to the data protection debacle at Loyaltybuild as gardaí yesterday announced a fraud squad probe into breaches at the company.

An initial examination by the Irish Payment Services Organisation is showing no fraudulent activity on the credit cards of Supervalu and AXA customers.

The health of the oceans is “spiralling downward” faster than previously thought as a result of climate change, pollution and over-fishing, scientists have warned.

Criminals are targeting elderly and vulnerable bank customers by distracting them at ATMs and stealing their cards.

Irish consumers are making a big switch from cheques and paper-based payment methods to cards and online banking.

An external review into the risk management of the Irish electronic payments system following the failure of Ulster Bank last year has found that reviews weren’t carried out often enough.

A total of €20.4m was lost to fraud on Irish issued credit, debit and ATM cards in 2012, down from the €25.7m lost in 2011.

Stores are being targeted in a fresh scam in which fraudsters pretend to work for the company that provides cash terminals so as to gain the financial details of customers in recent transactions.

Shoppers and commuters have been warned to take extra care when using credit and debit cards during the pre-Christmas period after criminals began targeting ticket vending machines at railway stations.

Commuters and Christmas shoppers are being targeted by a criminal gang skimming bank cards at ticket vending machines.

Sophisticated credit card scammers have hit at least 50 merchants and taken €200,000 in bogus credit card payments.

Shopkeepers are being alerted to a scam that's seen around 50 shops lose up to €200,000 in the last week.

A fraudster operating in Cork, Waterford and Dublin has duped retailers out of over €100,000 in credit card payments.

The amount of payments made online in Ireland has risen by almost 30% since 2006, during which time the use of cheques declined by half.

The Central Bank has ordered all banks to review their contingency plans and payment systems as the crisis at Ulster Bank continues into its seventh day.

Ulster Bank customers were thrown into further confusion after many ATM cards and machines across the country stopped working after 10pm last night.

Irish people are still much fonder of cash than their European counterparts.

The scale of bank card fraud is continuing to rise, with €25.7m being scammed by criminals off unsuspecting card holders last year.

Irish consumers are lagging dramatically behind their European counterparts when it comes to using online banking, according to a study by comScore.

IRELAND still trails its European counterparts in terms of paying for goods electronically, but a survey shows we are slowly cottoning onto the benefits of switching from cash.

The amount of cash withdrawn from ATM machines last year fell by €3bn, it has been revealed.

LIFE in the oceans is at imminent risk of the worst spate of extinctions in millions of years due to threats such as climate change and over-fishing, a study shows.

IRISH bank officials are working with their British and US counterparts to counter the threat of a new computer virus which can empty customers’ accounts while covering its tracks by showing the customer fake bank balances.

THE phasing out of cheques is accelerating, with new figures showing the volume used here last year declined by 13% — more than double the reduction in 2008.

THE Government’s stamp duty on credit cards has been labelled “uncompetitive” by a leading industry group, which claims it could stop new entrants coming into the market.

THE use of online banking has surged 16% with 2.6 million customers now registered in Ireland.

A FLAW has been discovered with chip and PIN technology which could result in Irish credit card holders being liable for any money stolen from them.

THE PUBLIC is being urged to fight finance fraud that is “ruining people’s self respect and lives”.

IRELAND’S overdependence on cash is harming the economy and the country’s competitiveness.

FRAUDSTERS have been developing technology to tamper with chip and PIN terminals in shops and steal card information.

CREDIT cardholders whose details were used illegally when fraudsters gained access to the database of an Irish online retailer will not suffer any financial loss, it was confirmed yesterday.

IRISH consumers withdraw more money from cash-machines than anyone else in Europe — taking out almost €6,000 a year each, figures have revealed.

BANKS yesterday urged consumers and business to ditch cash and cheques, saying the cost of processing the transactions was €1.4 billion a year.

MARKS & SPENCER is the latest high street retailer to ban cheques, forcing customers to pay by cash or card instead.

CROOKS are resorting to mobile phone technology to trick consumers into divulging their bank details to a bogus automated hotline.

EDUCATED fraudsters have enough know-how to use complex mathematical calculations to imprint genuine but unissued bank numbers onto fake credit cards.

FRAUDSTERS are making €30,000 every time they get past a bank’s security measures and con Irish consumers into divulging their account details.