IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Data breaches. confirms security incident (unknown) Friedrich Air Conditioning, LLC announces security breach (unknown) Gibson Overseas, Inc. announces security breach (unknown) The Country Club at Woodfield, Inc. announces security breach (unknown) The Country Club at Woodfield, Inc. Data breaches.

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Data breaches Ransomware Energy and Utilities Phishing 116

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Business is booming and data is flowing. Retailers and shoppers are leveraging and enjoying many benefits data sharing brings: loyalty programs, personalized experiences, easier product location and ordering, online shopping, mobile access and the list goes on. The Perfect Storm. Everything.

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Retail Digital transformation Security Encryption 89

Troy Hunt

APRIL 14, 2024

Data breach verification: that seems like a good place to start given the discussion in this week's video about Accor. Watch the vid for the whole thing but in summary, data allegedly taken from Accor was published to a popular hacking forum and the headlines inevitably followed.

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Authentication Retail Data breaches Cloud 87

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

At the time, BleepingComputer contacted Schneider Electric which confirmed the data breach. The ransomware identifies user accounts by viewing successful logins in Windows Event Viewer, it also uses a modified variant of the open-source PSnmap Tool. The Cactus ransomware relies on multiple legitimate tools (e.g.

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Ransomware Digital transformation Encryption Retail 110

IT Governance

OCTOBER 9, 2018

We’ve talked a lot recently about the financial effects of data breaches and how you should respond to incidents , but that still leaves the question of how data breaches occur. This blog looks at some real-world examples of some of the most common causes of data breaches and explains how they occurred.

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Data breaches Ransomware Phishing Retail 96

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 7, 2018

August is two-thirds of the way through year, and we have already seen a number of serious, far-reaching data breaches making headlines, some occurred in 2018, and some from 2017 that are now being disclosed. retail sector needs to come to terms with some bad news. retail sector needs to come to terms with some bad news.

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Data breaches Retail IT Communications 63

IT Governance

MAY 7, 2024

Plus, a further 3,029,461 known records newly breached Welcome to this week’s global round-up of the biggest and most interesting news stories. At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. Data breached: 395 GB.

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IT Governance

JUNE 25, 2018

Despite the benefits of good data management, it was widely acknowledged that many organisations would not be GDPR-compliant on 25 May. There are many opportunities within retail, leisure and hospitality for tailored offers and promotions to improve business.

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Retail GDPR IT Compliance 71

Security Affairs

JULY 21, 2021

The platform lists coupons in multiple categories including health, travel, food, services, events. July 19, 2021 – The actor having the alias “ bl4ckt0r ” has published TicketClub Italy database with over 340,957 users for sale and released several meaningful data dumps which may confirm the breach.

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Data breaches Sales Retail Phishing 105

Hunton Privacy

DECEMBER 31, 2013

Staff at a leading Shanghai courier firm, YTO Express, are suspected of selling millions of items of personal information about its customers to online traders, who then sold the information to online retailers.

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Data breaches Retail Education Sales 40

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

As the holiday season approaches, many retail, hospitality, logistics, and food manufacturing organizations hire seasonal workers to meet increasing demand. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports a 7% job rise in the retail industry. The solution must be capable of protecting both on-premises and in-the-cloud apps and data.

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Access Retail Security Authentication 71

IT Governance

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

The public data set on the ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office) website shows that data security isn’t necessarily better for financial organisations. Although the total number of data breaches – or rather, in those reported – decreased by 24% between 2019 and 2022 in the finance sector, the number of incidents increased by 99%.

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Risk Data breaches Authentication Financial Services 104

Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

11, 2022 after they SIM-swapped an AT&T customer by impersonating them at a retail store using a fake ID. This story will be updated in the event any of them respond. The indictment states that the perpetrators in this heist stole the $400 million in cryptocurrencies on Nov. 2, 2024.

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Blockchain Ransomware Retail Analytics 230

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Consumers have their Say about Protection of Personal Data – Call for More Stringent Controls. We live in a digital world in which we engage with significant social, government, retail, business and entertainment services now delivered without any direct human service management. Users are prepared to act to protect their data.

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Personal data Data breaches Government Authentication 71

Krebs on Security

APRIL 18, 2019

The subdomains listed above suggest the attackers may also have targeted American retailer Sears ; Green Dot , the world’s largest prepaid card vendor; payment processing firm Elavon ; hosting firm Rackspace ; business consulting firm Avanade ; IT provider PCM ; and French consulting firm Capgemini , among others. internal-message[.]app.

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IT Retail Phishing Access 188

IT Governance

JUNE 8, 2023

We’ve looked at sources such as IBM’s Cost of a Data Breach Report , Verizon’s 2023 DBIR (Data Breaches and Investigations Report) and Proofpoint’s The State of Phishing report , and found 50 essential stats to reveal the threat that phishing plays – plus we have an extra statistic to explain how you can prevent attacks.

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Phishing Data breaches Communications Ransomware 111

Krebs on Security

JUNE 30, 2020

Global lockdowns from COVID-19 have resulted in far fewer fraudsters willing or able to visit retail stores to use their counterfeit cards, and the decreased demand has severely depressed prices in the underground for purloined card data. An ad for a site selling stolen payment card data, circa March 2020. .

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Cyber criminals continued to wreak havoc, with the likes of Twitter , Uber and Neopets all reporting mammoth data breaches. In total, we have so far reported more than 1,000 data breaches in 2022, with almost half a billion breached records. Did anyone purchase the apparently stolen data?

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Security Data breaches Ransomware Military 132

erwin

APRIL 11, 2019

In fact, organizations should expect increasing pressure on lawmakers to introduce new data protection regulations. A number of high-profile data breaches and scandals have increased public awareness of the issue. For example, many retailers have robust, data-driven e-commerce operations that are international.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 12, 2018

Companies like retailers, banks, and healthcare providers began seeking out cyberinsurance in the early 2000s, when states first passed data breach notification laws. But even with 20 years' worth of experience and claims data in cyberinsurance, underwriters still struggle with how to model and quantify a unique type of risk.

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Insurance Cybersecurity Data breaches Retail 49

Krebs on Security

JANUARY 28, 2020

In the unlikely event any individual customer who has promptly notified their card issuer of fraudulent charges related to this incident is not reimbursed, Wawa will work with them to reimburse them for those charges.” Gemini monitors multiple carding sites like Joker’s Stash. The company found the median price of U.S.

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Sales Retail Security Encryption 305

IT Governance

AUGUST 9, 2019

The alert, issued in partnership with the Retail & Hospitality ISAC (information sharing and analysis centre [link] ), highlights a recent increase in malware attacks targeting e-commerce websites to gain payment card data. And by then, it is too late. How are organisations infected?

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Retail Data breaches Phishing Government 71

Hunton Privacy

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

On September 15, 2016, the New Jersey Senate unanimously approved a bill that seeks to limit retailers’ ability to collect and use personal data contained on consumers’ driver and non-driver identification cards. The bill, known as the Personal Information and Privacy Protection Act , must now be approved by the New Jersey Assembly.

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Privacy Retail Personal data Insurance 45

Adam Levin

JULY 8, 2020

What would happen if you typed in “Amazon,” the corresponding domain popped up, and you clicked, but instead of finding the world’s largest online retailer, you landed on a 1980s WarGames-themed page with a laughing skull? All of these can be extinction-level events. Think that would be impossible?

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Retail Authentication Insurance Data breaches 52

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

JANUARY 28, 2022

European Data Breach Survey 2022. Data protection supervisory authorities across Europe have issued a total of nearly EUR1.1 This figure is taken from our latest annual General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Fines and Data Breach Survey of the 27 European Union Member states plus the UK, Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein.

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GDPR Privacy Data breaches Personal data 98

Krebs on Security

APRIL 17, 2019

But occasionally I feel obligated to publish such accounts when companies respond to a breach report in such a way that it’s crystal clear they wouldn’t know what to do with a data breach if it bit them in the nose, let alone festered unmolested in some dark corner of their operations.

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Data breaches Phishing Retail Access 272

HL Chronicle of Data Protection

MAY 10, 2019

Chambers noted that PaC “[r]emains one of the country’s preeminent privacy and data security practices. A highly talented roster of attorneys advising clients on major data breaches and complex policy matters across a multitude of industries, including retail, automotive and media.”.

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Privacy Cybersecurity Retail Data breaches 40

Hunton Privacy

JUNE 18, 2018

Data brokers must submit an annual report to the City, including, among other items, (1) the number of Chicago residents whose personal information the brokers collected in the previous year and (2) the name and nature of the businesses to which the brokers shared personal information. Mobile Devices with Location Services Functionality.

Retail 55

Retail Data collection Data breaches Personal data 55

IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The GDPR applies to any organization that processes the personal data of European residents, regardless of where that organization is based. A data controller is any organization, group, or person that collects personal data and determines how it is used. million per breach.

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GDPR Compliance Personal data Privacy 85

Data Matters

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

1 As has been widely reported, the Exam Priorities’ general focus areas include: retail investors. 1 As has been widely reported, the Exam Priorities’ general focus areas include: retail investors. A Continued Focus on Retail Investors – what does this mean? Indeed, retail funds have been a Commission focus for many years.

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Compliance Retail Cybersecurity Risk 60

IT Governance

AUGUST 10, 2018

Butlin’s has suffered a data breach that has affected up to 34,000 of its customers. He continued: “The data which may have been accessed includes booking reference numbers, lead guest names, holiday arrival dates, postal and email addresses and telephone numbers. No payment card data affected.

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Data breaches Phishing Passwords Security 69

IT Governance

JUNE 21, 2023

According to a Digital Guardian report , 90% of data breaches are caused by phishing, while Venari Security found that organisations lose approximately $181 (£150) for each piece of personal information stolen in online scams. If your colleague makes a mistake and a data breach ensues, you will be at fault.

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Phishing Passwords Authentication Data breaches 52

IT Governance

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

As a global organisation, and with a considerable workforce and hundreds of affiliated associations, FIFA should have been prepared for – and able to swiftly and effectively respond – to a data breach incident. It is believed that the breach was caused by an employee falling for a phishing scam. Assess your risks.

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Phishing Data breaches Risk Encryption 87

Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 15, 2019

“ BriansClub ,” one of the largest underground stores for buying stolen credit card data, has itself been hacked. THE TARGET BREACH OF THE UNDERGROUND? After many hours spent poring over this data, it became clear I needed some perspective on the scope and impact of this breach.

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Sales Marketing Retail Government 207

eSecurity Planet

JUNE 23, 2023

Each of these events would merit a penetration test, so a long-term contract with controlled pricing ensures the company will not delay needed penetration tests because of budgetary issues or lengthy contract negotiations. This number will be different from organization to organization and system to system.

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Data Matters

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Firms must adopt written policies to protect their clients’ private information and they need to anticipate potential cybersecurity events and have clear procedures in place rather than waiting to react once a breach occurs.” (Emphasis added throughout.).

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Cybersecurity Risk Compliance Marketing 60

eSecurity Planet

MARCH 31, 2022

For example, if the organization sends out an invitation to a company-wide event, the attacker might follow that up with an email that includes a “registration link” which really includes malware. Because the initial email was genuine, employees are more likely to lower their guard when they get the second email. Vishing Defenses.

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