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AUGUST 10, 2016

That could be the case with 12 health care payers, who are at risk of being hacked after a health care vendor was compromised. Social Security numbers, medical information, bank account numbers and claims information were not part of the hack.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

An Indian web system — used to mark attendance for government workers, which records names, photos and unique Aadhaar numbers — was easily compromised, and led to the access of private information for thousands of workers, reports showed. . There have been a number of security breaches involved with Aadhaar over the years.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 21, 2016

Acer further noted that passwords, login credentials and Social Security numbers were not impacted by the breach. “Based on our records, we have determined that your information may have been affected, potentially including your name, address, card number, expiration date, and three-digit security codes.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Retailer Hudson’s Bay got story started in early April with the disclosure that Saks Fifth Avenue and Lord & Taylor stores in North America had their payment cards compromised. The breach was believed to have seen 5 million cards compromised. According to early reports, the data breach impacted 0.5 Exactis Hack.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

customers may have been compromised. The stolen data included Social Security numbers, birth dates and other personal information. Hackers can also pinpoint wealthier targets by sorting the stolen Equifax information by zip code, and then going after those customers with addresses in expensive neighborhoods.

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VISTA InfoSec

JUNE 21, 2023

Data breaches are affecting millions of people across the globe, with over 340 million records already compromised in 2023 headline cases and new incidents surfacing every week. You need to know if any data has been compromised and, if so, where it may have been shared. 5 - (2 votes)

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 16, 2019

Capital One stressed that credit card account numbers and login credentials were not compromised, while more than 99 percent of Social Security numbers were not impacted.

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PYMNTS

JULY 9, 2018

Over a period spanning from the end of April to the middle of June, the party made use of user names and passwords to log in to customers’ accounts, and then gained access to names, email addresses, phone numbers, birthdays and payment card information. The company also revealed that the Social Security numbers of U.S.

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PYMNTS

MAY 15, 2017

and Puerto Rico had their payment card information compromised. While the information hacked included names, account numbers, expiration dates and verification codes, Brooks Brothers confirmed sensitive information like social security numbers and addresses weren’t compromised. This past week, the U.S.-based

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2021

Yet the new bill fails to address the gaps that allowed for fraudulent activity among some businesses that had secured PPP loans in the first round of stimulus, the publication alleges. But new concerns are mounting over the U.S. government's inability to curb the risk of fraud that emerged during the first round of PPP funding.

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Fi911

JULY 8, 2024

Synthetic Fraud Synthetic fraud occurs when criminals create fictitious identities by combining real and fake information, such as using a real Social Security Number with a fake name and address. As we addressed before, acquirers have a vested interest in helping merchants with this challenge.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Over a period spanning from the end of April to the middle of June, the party made use of usernames and passwords to log in to customers’ accounts, and then gained access to names, email addresses, phone numbers, birthdays and payment card information. However, Macy’s said the accounts don’t include Social Security Numbers or CVV numbers.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 30, 2018

Under Armour has revealed that it’s suffered one of the biggest hacks in history after data from 150 million users of its MyFitnessPal diet and fitness app was compromised in February. The stolen data includes account usernames, email addresses and scrambled passwords for the MyFitnessPal mobile app and website.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 20, 2019

The information exposed did not include any financial information, Social Security numbers or password data. The cyber thief got users’ names, billing addresses, phone numbers, account numbers and plan information. Last month, a data breach exposed the personal data of more than 1 million prepaid T-Mobile customers.

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PYMNTS

JULY 29, 2019

Capital One announced that a hacker had accessed about 100 million credit card applications, as well as thousands of Social Security and bank account numbers. Capital One stressed that credit card account numbers and log-in credentials were not compromised, while more than 99 percent of Social Security numbers were not impacted.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Banks, financial institutions (FIs) and other members of the financial world are, thus, dealing with a rising flood of identity theft and application fraud, as bad actors look to capitalize on the email addresses, Social Security numbers, credit details and other information they have on hand. Around the Digital Fraud World.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Starting with one or two pieces of real information (a Social Security number is always one of them, sometimes paired with a real name), fraudsters take their time to slowly nurture a fake credit profile until it has a good enough record to make a big strike.

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PYMNTS

JULY 30, 2018

Users should also be on the lookout for typos and grammatical errors in any emails, and be sure not to share sensitive details like payment card information or Social Security numbers. The Advocate also noted that a way to avoid falling victim to the scam is to verify the URL. That’s an instant foot in the door.”.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

According to a news report in the The New York Post , hackers were able to steal customers’ data — including Social Security numbers — due to a weakness in open source software developed by Apache Software Foundation. consumers and potentially compromised the credit card numbers of approximately 209,000 people. Baird & Co.,

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2017

million users may have been compromised at its TIO Networks unit, a company it acquired earlier in 2017. PayPal said it was looking into the vulnerabilities at TIO and discovered that users’ information may have been compromised. PayPal disclosed late last week that the personal information of around 1.6

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 31, 2019

High tech — the social media kind — also proved to be a lure for hackers, and where cumulatively 617 million records went on sale on the dark web in February for about $20,000 in bitcoin. The records stolen ranged from email addresses to passwords. Data compromised included email addresses, Social Security numbers and bank information.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 11, 2019

Phone numbers, email addresses, usernames and other online signifiers have become vital to digital identity verification, as the world becomes increasingly connected. The Digital Identity Tracker™ , a Jumio collaboration, frames and addresses key issues facing digital identity players. About the Tracker.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Remember how all those names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security and drivers’ license numbers and other information were stolen in September of 2017 – the information of some 143 million people – in what still stands as the one of the biggest data breaches of all time? Remember all that stolen Equifax data?

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PYMNTS

APRIL 25, 2019

This led to a security breach that compromised the data of approximately 2.1 million consumers — including full names and addresses, dates of birth, genders, answers to security questions, email addresses and passwords, as well as hundreds of Social Security numbers.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 26, 2018

According to news from Bloomberg , compromised data from the October 2016 cyberattack included the names, email addresses and phone numbers of 50 million Uber riders around the world. The ridesharing company said that no Social Security numbers, credit card information, trip location details or other data were taken.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 1, 2019

Names, addresses, email addresses, dates of birth and phone numbers were all exposed, including the Social Security Numbers of 140,000 U.S. customers, and 1 million Canadian Social Insurance Numbers.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 29, 2018

Security researcher Vinny Troia discovered the breach earlier this month. citizen in it,” said Troia, founder of Night Lion Security , in the report. “The data compromised by Exactis’ breach is even more severe than financial information, such as credit card or bank account numbers.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 15, 2019

In the days before eCommerce, before data breaches grabbed everything from Social Security numbers to passwords, before fraudsters began to craft synthetic identities, strong customer authentication was rather simple. Compromised data includes passwords, too, of course. Dynamic PII. The Need For Machine Learning.

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PYMNTS

JULY 11, 2018

We have investigated the matter thoroughly, addressed the cause and, as a precaution, have implemented additional security measures,” Macy’s said in an emailed statement. While personal data including birthdates may have been accessed, the retailer said that social security numbers were not.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 29, 2019

The theft of data was large, and 140,000 Social Security numbers and 80,000 bank account numbers were compromised. Thompson did not get names and addresses of customers, however. . Thompson is in government custody and faces up to 25 years in prison if she is convicted.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 13, 2017

The public has become very aware of security incidents that have compromised their data and that of others, and it’s making them ask the tough questions: What does identity mean to them? Who are they, who has their documents and data and how are those things being stored and secured? The Social Security number won’t help.

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PYMNTS

MAY 8, 2018

Equifax , the embattled credit scoring company that was the subject of a massive data breach last fall, provided several congressional committees in the Senate and House with more information on the data compromised in the breach. Equifax said in the statement that the additional information provided to Congress includes how many U.S.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 29, 2018

Earlier this year, Under Armour revealed that it suffered one of the biggest hacks in history after data from 150 million users of its MyFitnessPal diet and fitness app was compromised in February. “On The stolen data included account usernames, email addresses and scrambled passwords for the MyFitnessPal mobile app and website.

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PYMNTS

JULY 15, 2020

With data showing that 45 percent of all 2019 data breaches — and there were a lot of them — involved medical records theft, costing healthcare providers $429 per compromised patient record or nearly $18 billion, organizations can’t be confused about their value to cyberthieves. Medical Records = Dark Web Gold.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

He noted that in all the news reports detailing the ravages of identity theft, one thing is notably missing: A list of free services – from the government and elsewhere – that can help individuals monitor whether they have been compromised and how to protect themselves.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 31, 2017

But what about businesses that want to explore the dark web, specifically to see if their data or information has been compromised, without the risk that comes with poking around in such an unfamiliar place? Owl Cybersecurity created a way to safely query the dark net.

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Clearly Payments

JANUARY 8, 2024

Implementing effective chargeback management practices is essential to minimize their occurrence and address disputes promptly. Addressing customer queries and concerns promptly can prevent frustration and dissatisfaction, reducing the likelihood of customers resorting to chargebacks to resolve issues.

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