Mar 13, 2017 | Data Breaches
Credit and debit card payments giant Verifone [NYSE: PAY] is actively investigating a breach of its internal computer networks that appears to have impacted a number of client companies running their point-of-sale solutions, according to sources. Verifone stated that...
Mar 13, 2017 | Data Breaches
US retail chain Home Depot has proposed a settlement where it agrees to pay a $25 million in relation to a point of sale data breach suffered in 2014. The incident reportedly saw the credit and debit cards of around 56 million people compromised, and may have resulted...
Mar 6, 2017 | Cyber-Crime, Malware and Exploits
It is being reported that the Pennsylvania Senate Democratic Caucus was hit on Friday by a ransomware variant, and that the damage has them still non-functioning as late as Monday morning. The political organization made a report to local press after their website was...
Feb 10, 2017 | Cyber-Crime, Data Breaches
Hundreds of thousands of people may have had their credit card data hacked into after buying Arby’s fast food. The restaurant found that its computer systems and tills in some US stores were breached by malware, that allows attackers to remotely steal data from...
Feb 7, 2017 | Cyber-Crime, Data Breaches
In late December 2016, we revealed that IHG had hired a security consultant to investigate whether they had been subject of a data-breach. Now we can confirm that the data breach is verified by IHG themselves in a press release issued late last Friday. IHG said it...
Jan 26, 2017 | Data Breaches
The Police Department in Cockrell Hill, Texas has admitted in a press release that they have lost years worth of evidence after the department’s server was encrypted in a ransomware attack. Lost evidence included all body camera video, some in-car video, some...
