PYMNTS

DECEMBER 15, 2016

14) that a new cybersecurity breach incident has affected over a billion of its users and their private data. This billion-user figure means this newest hack is the largest data breach in the digital era. billion buyout of its core assets, said it would review the impact of the latest breach.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 31, 2018

So far this year (and there’s still one more day), Verizon reported that there have been 2,216 confirmed data breaches across 65 countries. Even more disturbing, perhaps, is that 68 percent of those breaches took months for the breached companies to discover. The breach was believed to have seen 5 million cards compromised.

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VISTA InfoSec

APRIL 3, 2024

Beyond the immediate financial repercussions, a breach can severely damage a company’s reputation and erode the trust it has built with its customers. Encryption is a vital safeguard that transforms data into a format that is unintelligible without the corresponding decryption key.

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VISTA InfoSec

OCTOBER 21, 2024

As fraudsters are continuously finding new ways to strike, we’re continuously finding new ways to prevent them with controls such as encryption, multi-factor authentication, fraud detection software, etc. The TPM can securely store and generate cryptographic keys, passwords, certificates, and encryption keys. However, manufacturers DO.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 31, 2016

According to the report, the banking regulator said the data breach had to do with a former employee at the agency removing more than 10,000 records without receiving authorization to do so. The data on the thumb drives was encrypted, and there isn’t evidence that shows the data taken was misused or disclosed to anybody.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 27, 2017

Eric Chiu, cofounder and president of HyTrust , joined this week’s Hacker Tracker to share insights on the SEC examining the Yahoo breaches, why a selfie app may cause more harm than good and how the U.S. Yahoo disclosed a breach of 500 million users’ data in Sept. 2013 had compromised even more user data.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 9, 2019

8) that his office, as well as 42 other state attorney generals, have settled with Neiman Marcus over a 2013 breach of customer payment card data at 77 of the retailer’s stores. The states’ investigations determined that around 370,000 payment cards were breached, including 8,323 associated with consumers in the state of Maryland.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 5, 2020

The panel’s standards apply to all entities that accept credit or debit card payments and are intended to ensure that these organizations are working to reduce their risks of security breaches and to minimize the damage of attacks that slip through their defenses. Compliance Complexities.

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VISTA InfoSec

OCTOBER 21, 2024

The importance of cyber security for SMEs As small and medium enterprises (SMEs) often become prime targets for cyber attacks, resulting in significant financial losses and data breaches, the importance of cyber security can’t be emphasized enough. The rise of social engineering tactics further complicates the cyber security landscape.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2016

There was a time when data breaches were not a daily part of consumers’ day-to-day lives. customers found out that their personal information has been in the hands of hackers for the last few years, mostly due to out-of-date encryption and an apparent unwillingness on Yahoo!’ s part to believe their systems had been compromised.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

Just last week, Yahoo fell victim to what could be the biggest data breach in the digital era. Over 500 million Yahoo accounts have been compromised by hackers, according to emerging reports. Mayer was reportedly not quick to announce that 500 million accounts had been compromised in the 2014 breach.

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VISTA InfoSec

JANUARY 22, 2024

It boils down to minimizing the risk of data breaches and maximizing the security of cardholder information. This is achieved through a multi-pronged approach: Data Encryption: Requirement 3 mandates the use of strong cryptographic controls such as encryption for stored cardholder data. PCI DSS v3.2.1 PCI DSS v4.0 PCI DSS v4.0

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

According to KPMG, over the past two years, 81 percent of health care organizations were the victims of cyberthreats or even had data compromised. Health care companies are indeed concerned, but some may feel paralyzed as to what to do about it, including how to encrypt data. The number of instances is rapidly increasing.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

In what may be among the largest data breaches in history, Marriott International said Friday morning (Nov. 30) that as many as 500 million guests’ data was accessed, tied to a breach of the Starwood hotel guest reservation database. The Marriott breach follows the Yahoo breach that affected roughly three billion accounts.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

arguing that the Securities and Exchange Commission should open an investigation after the data breach last week — quite possibly the largest breach in history. Marissa Mayer, Yahoo’s chief executive officer, was not quick to announce that 500 million accounts had been compromised in the 2014 breach.

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Fintech Finance

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

This goes beyond current methods of managing sensitive information for individuals and organizations, ensuring data recovery without compromising privacy. “We It offers something that goes beyond encryption alone, empowering users to take control of their digital assets.”

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Seon

JUNE 15, 2023

Business email compromise (BEC) attacks can be a major risk to businesses’ finances and reputations. Let’s look at what business email compromise attacks are and explore some of the many ways you can combat them. What Is a Business Email Compromise Attack? Reported losses in 2020 exceeded $4.2

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EBizCharge

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Now more than ever, businesses are focusing on preventing data breaches and implementing response protocols to mitigate breaches if they occur. According to the 2023 IBM Data Breach Report , the global average cost of data breaches was $4.45 What are data breaches?

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PYMNTS

JUNE 29, 2018

Another day, another (possible) data breach: Adidas revealed that it has come under attack from cybercriminals looking to steal personal information. The breach could potentially affect millions of customers, who were notified on Thursday (June 28) about the incident on the Adidas U.S.

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Segpay

OCTOBER 22, 2024

High-profile data breaches have made the risks of storing user IDs clear, with victims suffering from identity theft and financial loss. This reduces the risk of breaches and misuse. This significantly reduces the risk of privacy breaches. Additionally, companies that store sensitive data are prime targets for cyberattacks.

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Stax

MARCH 4, 2024

It’s also critical to ensure card information is protected from data breaches with secure encryption and cybersecurity standards in place. NFC payments, including digital wallets, are very secure, relying on encryption to mask the card number, further protecting cardholder information.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 27, 2020

Businesses have good reason to be concerned about data breaches. Cybercriminals’ accomplishments come at the expense of targeted businesses, with a recent study finding that individual data breaches cost firms around the globe an average of $3.92 Two-factor authentication (2FA) or encrypting sensitive data can also help.

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Stax

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

In 2022, there were 1802 instances of data compromise in America which affected 422 million people. There are various methods of enforcing data security, such as data masking, encryption, authentication, and data tokenization. Today, data is as important as currency and should be safeguarded as such.

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Segpay

DECEMBER 13, 2024

However, the implementation of strong identity management systems must align with data protection regulations, so that the collection, storage, and processing of data for identification purposes does not compromise individuals’ privacy. If a breach occurs, identity data, once compromised, is hard to restore.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 15, 2019

Des Moines, Iowa-based supermarket chain Hy-Vee said credit card information for an undisclosed number of customers were exposed in a data breach, according to reports. “Hy-Vee The systems that are being investigated for the data breach use point-to-point encryption, which supposedly makes seeing card data virtually impossible.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Of all the sensitive personal data consumers and businesses would rather not see compromised, financial data is surely toward the top of the list. Nearly one-quarter of those 42 percent said the data breach occurred in the last year, up from 19 percent in 2016. Despite this, though, data security seems to be lagging.

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Fintech News

MARCH 10, 2024

From compromised financial data to stolen identities, a single breach can shatter user trust and cripple business operations. By building mobile apps on a secure cloud foundation, banks can deploy apps without compromising security. However, a challenge presents itself: the ever-evolving threat to mobile app security.

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PYMNTS

JULY 19, 2020

France-based telecom company Orange reported that a ransomware attack had compromised the data of 20 enterprise customers on one of its servers, according to news site teiss. “Affected customers have already been informed by Orange teams, and Orange continues to monitor and investigate this breach.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Adobe is reportedly only paying $1 million over a lawsuit that has to deal with its data breach back in 2013 that put the payment records of around 38 million at risk. According to Krebs on Security , the $1 million goes to settle a lawsuit by 15 attorney generals stemming from that data breach.

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Exact Payments

JULY 1, 2024

By Jeremy Smillie, VP of DevSecOps at Exact Payments In an era where data breaches are not just threats but realities, protecting Personally Identifiable Information (PII) is more crucial than ever. Our software partners transmit merchant data to our APIs using Transport Layer Security (TLS) encryption. We implement TLS 1.3,

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 25, 2019

The breach included the company’s API database with about 14 million customer usernames, email addresses and passwords out of a possible 29 million customers. . The company had been using scrambled encryption with the SHA-1 algorithm, which has since been discovered as being vulnerable to spoofing.

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The Payments Association

DECEMBER 9, 2024

However, as payment services rely more heavily on these AI technologies, they face a growing challenge: how to harness the power of LLMs without compromising data privacy. Payment data is inherently vulnerable because its compromise can have significant financial and personal consequences for consumers.

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Basis Theory

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Whether that is collecting credit card numbers to transmit with a payment gateway, placing details into a shared customer relationship management system, or storing card numbers in an encrypted database—all of this sensitive information must be protected according to the specifics of the PCI-DSS standard.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Throughout 2017, the total number of enterprise records breached every day, hour, minute, and second each doubled from the year prior according to Breach Level Index (BLI). Data from the Verizon 2018 Data Breach Investigations Report shows that the attack-paths hackers take from initial compromise to final data breach are shrinking.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 2, 2018

For example, Facebook recently disclosed that an unprecedented data breach, discovered on September 25, exposed the social media accounts of up to 90 million users — including login credentials — effectively compromising access to any site that lets users log in with their Facebook account.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Free data storage services, the report said, may be an irresponsible choice for SMEs, though the report also found that, regardless of the security of the cloud data storage service, employee mistakes are often to blame for data breaches at SMEs. NIST, operating under the U.S. Back To Basics. Safeguarding From All Sides.

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VISTA InfoSec

AUGUST 22, 2023

Altering or replacing compromised biometric traits is complex. Addressing these risks necessitates robust security measures, encryption, access controls, and breach response plans. Facts on Biometric Data Breaches and Fines Under GDPR 1. Robust consent mechanisms and data control options are crucial. Clearview AI Inc.

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