Data Breach
Fraud Blog posts tagged “Data Breach”.
Number of Records Compromised in U.S...
...Data Breaches Nears All-Time High While Nearly 90 percent Included Victims’ SSNs Nearly 1,600 data breaches occurred in the United…
Nov 5, 2021 · 2 min read Fraud PreventionNYPD Trials New Skimming Detection Device “Skim Reaper”
A computer science professor and two graduate students invented a device used to check ATMs and card readers to detect the presence of a…
Nov 5, 2021 · 2 min read Data BreachOver 700 Million Compromised Email and Password Combinations Used to Send Spam
Lists of email addresses with password and other information, used to send phishing emails and spam, were hosted on an open server and…
Nov 5, 2021 · 2 min read Data BreachState Unemployment Systems Battered With Breaches and Identity Fraud
The state of Arkansas shut down their unemployment application website which exposed the PII of nearly 30,000 applicants and Illinois faced…
Nov 5, 2021 · 2 min read Data BreachUber Sat on Data Breach Affecting 57 Million Users for Over 1 Year
Uber, one of the latest companies to suffer a data breach, is suffering backlash not just for the 57 million user accounts compromised…
Nov 5, 2021 · 2 min read Data BreachAs SEC Investigates Yahoo Breach, FTC Reiterates Need for Federal Breach Notification Laws
Following a data breach involving over 500 million accounts and a delay in notifying the public or impacted parties, the Securities and…
Nov 4, 2021 · 2 min read Data BreachAverage Cost of Data Breach Grows to $4M Globally, $7M in the U.S.
IBM and the Ponemon Institute recently published the latest results of their global study measuring the financial impact of data breaches…
Nov 4, 2021 · 2 min read Data BreachDairy Queen and at Least 1,000 Other U.S. Businesses Hit by Backoff Malware
According to reports from the U.S. Secret Service and Kaspersky Labs, malware known as Backoff has been used to attack more than 1,000…
Nov 4, 2021 · 1 min read Data BreachData Breach Trends to Watch in 2015 Influenced by EMV and the Internet of Things
Credit bureau Experian recently released their second annual Data Breach Industry Forecast report highlighting six trends expected for…
Nov 4, 2021 · 2 min read Data BreachHeartbleed may have ripple effects on websites and authentication
All organizations need to be thinking about the future of user authentication and the heavy reliance on passwords which may be on the brink…
Nov 4, 2021 · 3 min read Industry NewsIn 2015 Achieving PCI Compliance Means Meeting the Version 3.0 Standards
The first big change for payments in 2015 took effect on January 1st when the deadline to meet PCI Data Security Standards (DSS) version…
Nov 4, 2021 · 2 min read Data BreachNearly half of Americans had personal information compromised in the last year
Hackers and data breaches have compromised the personal information of 110 million Americans just in the last twelve months, affecting 47…
Nov 4, 2021 · 2 min read