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A shopper has filed a class-action lawsuit seeking at least $5 million in damages for a data breach that affected Saks Fifth Avenue and Lord & Taylor. According to Women’s Wear Daily, shopper Antranik Mekerdijian filed a class action lawsuit … Continue reading Shopper’s Lawsuit Seeks $5M in Damages for Data Breach at Saks Fifth Avenue, Lord & Taylor
More and more organizations are now entrusting their IT resources and processing to the cloud. This trend is likely to grow in the coming years. To illustrate, Gartner predicts that cloud data centers will process 92 percent of workloads by 2020. Cloud… Continue reading Cloud vs. On-Premises: Understanding the Security Differences
Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t plan on extending the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) to all Facebook users. On 3 April, Facebook’s chief executive told Reuters in a phone interview that the social networking platfo… Continue reading Mark Zuckerberg Doesn’t Plan to Extend GDPR to All Facebook Users
A major U.S. pipeline network temporarily disabled a system that digitally processes customer transactions following a digital attack. Energy Transfer Partners (ETP), a Fortune 500 oil and natural gas company, disclosed the incident on 2 April in a not… Continue reading U.S. Pipeline Network Disables Transactions System After Digital Attack
Saks Fifth Avenue and Lord & Taylor have both suffered a data breach involving customers’ debit and credit card information. The data breach became apparent on 28 March when Joker’s Stash, a seller of stolen payment card details on unde… Continue reading Saks Fifth Avenue, Lord & Taylor Suffer Payment Card Data Breach
Under Armour has taken steps to notify 150 million MyFitnessPal users of a data breach that might have affected their account information. On 29 March, Under Armour published a statement announcing that it was working to notify approximately 150 millio… Continue reading Under Armour Notifies 150M MyFitnessPal Users of Data Breach
Facebook has announced its plans to expand its bug bounty program to include issues of app developers misusing users’ data. On 26 March, Facebook’s director of product partnerships Ime Archibong made public the social network’s intent… Continue reading Facebook to Include Data Misuse Issues in Bug Bounty Program
Recently, we renewed our countdown of the FBI’s 10 most wanted black-hat hackers. First up was Bezhad Mesri at number 10. He is accused of having compromised Home Box Office (HBO) employees’ emails and abused that access to steal data, exto… Continue reading The FBI’s 10 Most-Wanted Black-Hat Hackers – #9 and #8
City officials have confirmed they detected what they’re calling a “limited breach” on a system that supports Baltimore’s 911 emergency services. According to The Baltimore Sun, city personnel detected the intrusion at 08:30 loc… Continue reading “Limited Breach” Detected on System Supporting Baltimore’s 911 Emergency Services
The city of Atlanta is struggling to recover from a ransomware infection days after the initial attack targeted its computer network. As of 26 March, the municipality was still struggling to collect customers’ online payments for bills and fees. … Continue reading Atlanta Struggling to Recover from Ransomware Infection Days After Attack