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The number of JPMorgan hackers’ targets rises
The distressing news that the JPMorgan Chase breach resulted in the compromise of data of some 76 million households and 7 million small businesses may be soon followed by …
Backoff POS malware found at nearly 400 Dairy Queen locations
POS systems at nearly 400 franchises of the International Dairy Queen fast food chain have been infected with Backoff malware, the company has reported on Thursday. The …
Privacy breaches in Europe
Half of all the privacy breaches affecting people in Europe are inside jobs according to new research from Central European University. The findings come from a report …
AT&T suffers another insider breach
US telecom AT&T has lately been having problems with malicious insiders, and the latest incident has resulted in the compromise of account and personal information of a …
How consumers foot the bill for data breaches
Data breaches are almost always expensive and somebody always ends up paying those expenses somewhere down the line. Either because they were affected directly and have no one …
JPMorgan Chase breach confirmed, 83 million customers affected
A filing made by JPMorgan Chase with the US Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday has finally confirmed that the biggest bank in the US has suffered a data breach. …
California toughens breach notification law
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 …
PoS vendor confirms Jimmy John’s breach was their fault
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) …
216 Jimmy John’s stores affected in data breach
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 …
Consumers increasingly blame companies for data breaches
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 info of 880k Viator customers compromised
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 …
Home Depot security was anything but, say former employees
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 …
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