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Alexa Sizzles, Etsy Fizzles And Data Security Eyes A Legislative Leap Forward

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Chip-enabled transactions: Still seeing a steady march of acceptance in the United States. EMVCo says that 59 percent of card transactions are done through EMV chip cards globally. Stolen information included names, Social Security numbers, birth dates, addresses and, in some instances, driver’s license numbers.

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Card Data Compromised For Buckle Guests Who Swiped Card To Pay

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The company believes that exposure of cardholder data that could be used to create counterfeit cards – including names, addresses, emails and Social Security numbers – was limited, but some credit card numbers may have been compromised. Buckle Inc. 28, 2016, and April 14, 2017.

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Synthetic Identities, Tailor-Made For Fraud

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But in the world of identification fraud, there’s a greater sea change afoot, one that stretches farther than the impact on any one firm, or even the millions of adults targeted in the most brazen of breaches. This estimate was made well before the costs of the Equifax breach, though, so plan on the actual figure being quite a bit higher.