US Patent 11941633 System for identifying points of compromise

The disclosure describes an apparatus having programmed instructions that when executed cause the apparatus to receive, via a communication network, information regarding suspicious fraud activity at a first location involving a plurality of transaction cards; monitor changes over a first time interval to received information regarding suspicious fraud activity at the first location; and identify a point-of-compromise (POC) location based on monitored changes surpassing a threshold indicating suspicious fraud activity at the first location over the first time interval.