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JUNE 29, 2018

The first class action lawsuit against Exactis has been filed in response to the company’s massive data breach that exposed the private information of more than 200 million U.S. The marketing and data aggregation firm was the subject of a data breach in which customer information ended up on the internet for hackers or anyone else to view.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 10, 2018

A report by the House Oversight Committee has found that Equifax ’s massive data breach could have been easily prevented if its security practices and policies were up to par. Last year, the credit monitoring firm suffered a breach that impacted the personal data of more than 143 million consumers.

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Segpay

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Whether we are setting up a new bank account, making a purchase online, or accessing government services, confirming who we are in the virtual space is crucial to ensuring our security, the protection of our privacy, and the improvement of our user experience. Regulatory compliance is crucial in ensuring data privacy.

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PYMNTS

MAY 10, 2019

prosecutors have charged a Chinese national for his alleged involvement in the 2015 data breach at health insurance company Anthem , which led to the theft of 78.8 businesses operating in four distinct industry sectors, and violated the privacy of over 78 million people by stealing their PII. million records. businesses. businesses.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 2, 2019

Warby Parker contacted law enforcement when it found out about the breach. One of the biggest problems with these types of data breaches is that many users repeat passwords over many sites, and when information is stolen from one company, it can often be used by another. Warby Parker said that is what happened with this breach.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 3, 2019

The Georgia Institute of Technology confirmed that it suffered a data breach that has exposed the personal information of 1.3 The university’s information security officials are working to determine the extent of the breach, as well as identify those who may have been affected by it.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

And except when you’re the first retailer to get rung up under the new California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). 1, the first-class action lawsuit alleging data breaches under the CCPA was filed on Feb 5. The complaint accuses Salesforce of allowing the site to be infected with malware, which is the prime suspect for the data breach.

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PYMNTS

MAY 22, 2020

Arkansas, Colorado, Illinois and Ohio have warned tens of thousands of residents who have applied online for unemployment benefits due to COVID-19 of possible data breaches that could have exposed names, addresses and Social Security numbers.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

The standards put forth by the PCI Security Standards Council – the PCI Data Security Standards – offer a framework for ensuring data security, and they must be followed in order to avoid fines and other penalties. That’s crucial in helping firms prepare for other mandates, such as the California Consumer Privacy Act.

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PYMNTS

JULY 4, 2018

Following the massive data breach at Equifax last year, the cybersecurity sector has flourished – and so have some of the investments that track the industry. The ETFMG Prime Cyber Security ETF, for example, has risen 18 percent this year, CNBC reported. The fund includes companies such as Juniper Networks , Cisco and Symantec.

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PYMNTS

JULY 11, 2018

Another retailer has been hit with a data breach. The data breach impacted one-half of one-percent of customers who were registered on Macys.com or Bloomingdales.com, spokeswoman Blair Rosenberg said Tuesday (July 10), according to Bloomberg. “We Macy’s is just the latest retailer to be hit with a data breach.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 10, 2018

It’s unknown how long the pages were visible, and while it hasn’t been revealed how many people had their information exposed in the data breach, WSJ was able to see the records of more than 100 customers, including more than 50 with lockbox information, on just one day.

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PYMNTS

JULY 17, 2019

Clinical Pathology Laboratories (CPL) is the latest victim of a data security breach at the billing collections service American Medical Collection Agency (AMCA). CPL learned of the breach involving the AMCA payment website after being contacted by the company. Days later, 7.7 million LabCorp customers were compromised.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 4, 2016

. “We moved quickly to fix the issue once it was discovered.”

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EBizCharge

MARCH 18, 2024

From names and addresses to medical insurance and social security, this information must be handled with the utmost care to ensure privacy and security. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) is a federal law that protects the privacy and security of individuals’ health information.

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FICO

JULY 7, 2020

Beware of people claiming to be part of reputable organizations, like research firms or government agencies, asking you for personal information like bank card numbers or your Social Security number. Additionally, update your privacy settings on social networks to restrict access only to people that you trust.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

We have a deep dive on accounts payable (AP) automation, analysis on “Google Checking” and news on the T-Mobile data breach. T-Mobile Data Breach Puts Personal Data Of 1M+ Customers At Risk. A recent data breach exposed the personal data of over 1 million prepaid T-Mobile customers.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 1, 2018

Equifax , the credit scoring company embroiled in a 2017 data breach scandal, disclosed news on Thursday (March 1) that has identified 2.4 million more consumers in the U.S. whose partial driver’s license information was stolen. In a press release , Equifax said it was able to pinpoint about 2.4

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Failing to prevent a data breach is a surefire way to lose that trust, however. Credit unions possess vast troves of personal information such as credit card data and Social Security numbers that could devastate members if leaked. Data Breaches Within And Without. Credit unions are no strangers to data breaches.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2018

Access Group Education Lending, the student loan servicing company, has been the subject of a data breach. The data breach occurred on March 23 when Nelnet, a vendor that processes student loans for Access Group, sent out the files. “Nelnet has no reason to believe the information has been used inappropriately.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2019

Citrix has confirmed that hackers had access to its networks for six months before the breach was discovered, according to reports. This information may have included names, Social Security numbers and financial information.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 25, 2019

Two consumer websites have settled with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over allegations that they did not secure consumers’ data, allowing hackers to breach both sites. This led to a security breach that compromised the data of approximately 2.1

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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

APRIL 11, 2017

But as Coupa is looking to make strategic acquisitions and strengthen its service offerings, the company hit a speed bump last month when the firm was hit by a data breach that exposed IRS W-2 payroll forms of its workers. “A Coupa had 652 employees as of the time the news of the data breach emerged.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Financial company MSCI had warned Equifax a year before its massive data breach that there were signs it wasn’t protecting the data of its millions of customers. What’s more, MSCI scored a zero for the privacy and security of consumers’ data. The latest revelation comes as Equifax is reeling from its recent disclosure that 145.5

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 3, 2018

A consumer who tries to make an online purchase of eCigarettes might be asked to prove their age by — depending on the retailer — submitting a scan of their driver’s license, for instance, or entering the last four digits of their social security number, with that merchant then doing a background check. Privacy Concerns.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 13, 2017

The Equifax data breach — impacting sensitive and valuable information ranging from Social Security numbers to birth dates and home addresses — affected more than 150 million people and counting, and it’s become clear that the “one-size-fits-all” approach is no longer effective.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 4, 2019

That includes the sale and analysis of their personal data, and the potential security and fraud risks stemming from that. ID verification solutions are becoming more significant and sophisticated than they used to be,” Meier said.

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Stax

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Moreover, companies need to follow data privacy and compliance requirements to stay in business. There are various methods of enforcing data security, such as data masking, encryption, authentication, and data tokenization. The payment service provider would have their own secure storage where the PII is stored.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 7, 2019

The digital ID industry is devoting an immense amount of effort and capital to protecting digital identities as data breaches and privacy concerns continue to make headlines on a regular basis. Data breaches’ stakes are sky high for corporations, meaning ID security is even more important to the United States federal government.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Equifax has extended its free credit monitoring to all Americans affected by last year’s massive data breach , but this time, it’s using a service offered by rival Experian. You have until January 31, 2019, to enroll in this extension of free credit monitoring through IDnotify , a part of Experian.”.

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PYMNTS

JULY 2, 2018

Just a few weeks in, the data privacy law that has just taken root in the European Union already has some regulators seeking exemptions around the globe. Equifax Reaches Deal on Breach With Eight States . The data included addresses, Social Security numbers and other details.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

As noted late last week, a data breach at British Airways was revealed – one that affected more than 380,000 transactions done over the company’s website, and may be among the first test cases of GDPR’s reach and impact. And yet the consumers using those same banking services worry about data privacy a lot – 89 percent of them do, in fact.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Digital identities are growing more important and omnipresent in everyday life, and the need to keep them secure grows more pressing by the day. Financial information, Social Security numbers and a host of other private data is wrapped up in each person’s digital identity, making a potential data breach catastrophic.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

One need only scan the headlines of recent breaches to see the damage done, with hundreds of millions of individuals’ data compromised, and untold billions of dollars’ worth of financial havoc wreaked. Only As Good As The Weakest Link.

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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. Instead, each sensitive PII item is encrypted with a newly generated key, and the key is stored in a hardware security module (HSM).

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 1, 2017

On Thanksgiving morning, Uber-using Americans woke up with two questions: How long do I cook my turkey, and was I one of the 57 million people whose personal data was hacked as part of the Uber breach? At the time, Uber – at the directive of its chief security officer – hid the breach and paid hackers about $100,000 to destroy the data.

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