Nov 11, 2014 | Cyber-Crime, Data Breaches
In a Reuters article today we learned that the US Postal Service (USPS) was victim of a cyber attack that may have compromised the personal data of more than 800,000 employees, as well as customers who contacted their call center between January and August of 2014.
Employee data includes names, date of birth, social security numbers, addresses, employee state and end dates, as well as emergency contact information.
Oct 10, 2014 | Cyber-Crime, Data Breaches
Sears Holdings Corp announced late today that it has become the latest victim of a Point of Sale (POS) cyber-attack that probably resulted in the theft of some customer payment cards at its Kmart stores. This is the latest in a series of computer security breaches to...
Oct 10, 2014 | Cyber-Crime, Data Breaches
According to KrebsonSecurity.com – Dairy Queen has confirmed a credit card data exploit at 395 of their stores. In a statement released by DQ, their President and CEO – John Gainor, has outlined the exploit, and apologized for the breach. There is a list...
Oct 6, 2014 | Data Breaches, Malware and Exploits
According to the Today Online report just out, the number of accounts affected by the JPMorgan Chase exploit has now topped 83 million. The names, addresses, phone numbers & email addresses of the holders of some 83 million personal and small business bank...
Oct 3, 2014 | Data Breaches
News is breaking that in August, JPMorgan Chase potentially had 76 millions account holder details leaked. Silicon Republic Report: The discovery of this enormous breach came after a security filing posted online yesterday found that JP Morgan Chase, one of the...
Sep 24, 2014 | Cyber-Crime, Data Breaches, General Security
As early as July 14th of this year, Brian Krebs (KrebsonSecurity.com) was reporting that the Jimmy John’s chain was investigating claims of a data-breach. Today came the announcement that the breach was real – and that one of the payment providers used by...
