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Experts report a rampant growth in the number of malicious, lookalike domains

Security Affairs

Cyber security firm Venafi announced it has uncovered lookalike domains with valid TLS certificates that appear to target major retailers. The number is doubled compared to last year, the study revealed that less than 19,890 certificates have been issued for legitimate retail domains. retailers with over 49,500 typosquatted domains.

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UK ICO Issues Unprecedented Fine Against Mobile Phone Retailer for Lax Security

Hunton Privacy

On January 8, 2017, the UK Information Commissioner (“ICO”) issued an unprecedented monetary penalty of £400,000 against British mobile phone retailer, The Car Phone Warehouse Limited. the encryption keys for historical transactions were not stored safely.

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Key Ring digital wallet exposes data of 14 Million users in data leak

Security Affairs

The images include scans of government-issued IDs, retail club membership and loyalty cards, NRA membership cards, gift cards, credit cards with all details exposed (including CVV), medical insurance cards, medical marijuana ID cards, and more. ” ~ Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Toymaker giant Mattel disclosed a ransomware attack

Security Affairs

. “On July 28, 2020, Mattel discovered that it was the victim of a ransomware attack on its information technology systems that caused data on a number of systems to be encrypted. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. ” reads the 10-Q form. ” reads the 10-Q form.

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Croatia’s largest petrol station chain INA group hit by ransomware attack

Security Affairs

Fuel sales at our retail locations continue unhindered. “Multiple sources have told ZDNet the cyber-attack is a ransomware infection that infected and then encrypted some of the company’s backend servers.” Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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SHEIN Data breach affected 6.42 million users

Security Affairs

Another fashion retailer suffered a data breach, the victim is SHEIN that announces the security breach affected 6.42 The retailer hired a forensic cybersecurity firm as well as an international law firm to investigate the security breach. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Dixons Carphone: 5.9 million payment cards compromised

IT Governance

At this point, the major consumer electronics retailer said there was no evidence of any fraud. This isn’t the first time that the retailer has suffered a data breach. In 2015, the personal data of 2.4 In a second breach, personal customer data in the form of names, addresses and email addresses was accessed.

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