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Cybercriminals have succeeded in stealing the payment card information from over 110,000 animal lovers over several months after meddling with Oregon Zoo’s online ticket payment system.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. Continue reading Over 100,000 Oregon Zoo visitors warned that their payment card details were stolen in security breach
Quantum computers present a unique threat to many aspects of modern information technology. In particular, many cryptographic systems could be at risk of compromise in the event a malicious actor …read more Continue reading Mastercard’s New Card: Safer From Quantum Attacks?
As the retail world’s center of gravity shifts to the cloud, payment card fraud has followed suit. According to Verizon’s retail vulnerabilities study, attacks against e-commerce applications are by far the leading cause of retail data breaches. This t… Continue reading Card-Not-Present Fraud: 4 Security Considerations for Point of Sale Businesses
The food container company’s main website had a card skimmer that scooped up online customers’ payment card data. Continue reading Tupperware Cyberattack Stores Away Customer Payment Cards
Convenience store and gas station chain Rutter’s disclosed a security incident that might have affected customers’ payment card data. According to a notice posted on its website, Rutter’s launched an investigation after receiving a re… Continue reading Payment Card Data Security Incident Disclosed by Rutter’s
Landry’s, a popular restaurant chain in the United States, has announced a malware attack on its point of sale (POS) systems that allowed cybercriminals to steal customers’ payment card information.
Landry’s owns and operates more than 600 bars, resta… Continue reading Landry’s Restaurant Chain Suffers Payment Card Theft Via PoS Malware
Dining, hospitality and entertainment corporation Landry’s notified customers of a security incident that might have affected their payment card data. On December 31, Landry’s revealed that it first learned of the incident after it detected… Continue reading Landry’s Notifies Customers of Payment Card Incident
A newly discovered PayPal phishing scam attempts to steal much more than just a user’s login credentials for the online payments service. Slovakian security firm ESET observed that the scam began by targeting users with an attack email warning th… Continue reading PayPal Phishing Scam Tries to Steal Much More than Login Credentials
Convenience store chain Wawa disclosed a malware incident that might have exposed some of its customers’ payment card details. In a “Notice of Data Breach” published on December 2019, Wawa CEO Chris Gheysens revealed that the company&… Continue reading Malware Potentially Exposed Wawa Customers’ Payment Card Details
The online store for American gun manufacturer Smith & Wesson fell victim to a Magecart attack that’s designed to steal customers’ payment data. Willem de Groot of Sanguine Security learned that a particular Magecart group had been impe… Continue reading Smith & Wesson Online Store Affected by Magecart Attack