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Weekly Roundup: World-Check Database Hacked, Treasury Appeals CTA Case, and More

A hacking collective known as "GhostR" claims that it has managed to hack into and steal more than 5 million private records from World-Check, which maintains an enormous database of confidential information for sanctions-screening purposes, TechCrunch reported. More In a case that could either limit or uphold the Corporate Transparency Act, lawyers representing the Treasury Department argued in an appeal that a federal judge in Alabama overrode well-established powers of Congress in a ruling last month that the law violates the Constitution, moneylaundering.com reported. More The U.S. Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network disclosed that the most frequent perpetrators of...

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