data theft

California Governor Edmund Brown has signed on Tuesday new legislation that will strengthen privacy and consumer protections in the state. The new set of bills will, among …

Signature Systems, the PoS system vendor that has been named as the likely point of origin of the Jimmy John’s payment data breach, has confirmed that the attacker(s) …

Popular US franchised sandwich restaurant chain Jimmy John’s has confirmed that it has suffered a data breach that affected approximately 216 of its stores all over the …

Moving forward, every company involved in a major data breach—those actually attacked, such as retailers Home Depot, Target, Goodwill and Neiman Marcus, as well as banks, …

Payment card and personal information of approximately 1.4 million Viator.com customers may have been compromised in a breach that was confirmed late last Friday. The popular …

Bit by bit, information about the Home Depot security breach is coming to light, and the picture it paints is extremely unflattering for the retailer. The latest insight comes …

Home Depot confirmed that the malware used in its recent breach has been eliminated from its U.S. and Canadian networks. They completed a major payment security project that …

A recurring XSS bug in Amazon’s Kindle Library, i.e. the “Manage your Kindle” web application, can be exploited by attackers looking to hijack users’ …

Popular IRC network Freenode has suffered a security breach and is asking users to change their passwords, as they might have been compromised. “Earlier today the …

More details about the malware used in the Home Depot breach have surfaced, and it seems that, after all, it wasn’t the one used in the Target breach (BlackPOS). …

With this year’s dramatic uptick in data breaches targeting retailers and restaurant chains and, more specifically, the payment card data they process every day, …

While cyber thieves continue to breach major corporations such as JP Morgan and, just last week, the Salvation Army and Home Depot, Americans still seem to be unconcerned …