VISTA InfoSec

JUNE 27, 2024

In a recent development that has raised concerns across the education sector, Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) has confirmed a significant data breach involving student information.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 24, 2020

Messaging app Telegram said a data breach has exposed a database containing the personal information of millions of users, according to a Cointelgraph report. The database, which was exposed on a darknet forum, included users’ phone numbers and unique Telegram user IDs, according to the report.

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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.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Equifax, the credit scoring company that suffered a data breach that impacted as many as 143 million Americans, is blaming a vendor software flaw in its online databases. consumers and potentially compromised the credit card numbers of approximately 209,000 people. On Thursday, Sept. New York Attorney General Eric T.

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Clearly Payments

MARCH 4, 2024

From large-scale data breaches to intricate schemes, fraudulent activities have left lasting marks on the financial landscape. Target Data Breach (2013) In the saga of payment processing fraud, few chapters loom as large as the Target data breach of 2013. Compromise of over 40 million credit card accounts.

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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. At Exact Payments, we understand the magnitude of the responsibility of handling such sensitive data. We implement TLS 1.3,

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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. . The existence of the database was ruled constitutional by India’s Supreme Court in September.

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Segpay

OCTOBER 22, 2024

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

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PYMNTS

JULY 10, 2019

Last year the hotel company revealed that guests’ data was accessed, tied to a breach of the Starwood hotel guest reservation database. Of the 500 million guests impacted, around 327 million had information compromised that ranged from names to passport numbers to email addresses and Starwood account information.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 25, 2021

The data leaked included names, email addresses, phone numbers, bank account details and tax ID numbers, the report stated. No user funds have been compromised in the attack. Other reports, however, show only leaked information of 161,487 of the exchange’s users, noted Cointelegraph, citing BleepingComputer.

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PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2019

One of Italy’s most well-known banks, UniCredit, said that it was going to start its own probe into the Capital One data breach, according to Reuters. . “On The data breach affected more than 100 million people, and the alleged perpetrator was quickly arrested. . Reuters reported.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 7, 2016

Social networking site VK.com is the latest victim in a string of targeted data breaches that have hit a host of other social media outlets such as LinkedIn, Tumblr and Myspace. The stolen database contains full names, email addresses and passwords, as well as locations and phone numbers in some cases. million accounts.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 31, 2019

It’s kind of like being on the “worst dressed list” except that we’re talking about stolen data and, probably, lots of lawsuits. Welcome, then, to the Top Data Breaches of 2019. Thousands of breaches. In data coming into the end of the year, Risk Based Security said hackers had accessed 7.9 Size and Scope.

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Stax

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Today, data is as important as currency and should be safeguarded as such. In 2022, there were 1802 instances of data compromise in America which affected 422 million people. In other words, tokenization decouples sensitive information from the payment transaction thereby reducing the possibility of a data breach.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2018

The massive data breach revealed by Marriott last week might hurt its customers beyond the personal information that was stolen. On November 30, the company announced that as many as 500 million guests’ data was accessed due to a data breach of the Starwood hotel guest reservation database.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 29, 2017

Data and analytics startup XOR Data Exchange announced it will provide a free resource to online retailers to help businesses identify and mitigate the risk of identity theft. Participating online retailers will also have access to recent data breach activity and the format of any compromised account passwords via the platform.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 3, 2017

million customers may have been impacted by its massive data breach. Bloomberg , citing the company, reported that with this latest disclosure the number of people potentially impacted by the breach is now at 145.5 The people affected by this are not numbers in a database. million, up from 143 million.

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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. New requirement: 3.5.1.2

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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

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. Attack paths represent the number of steps that hackers have to take between breaking in and stealing an enterprise’s data.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 24, 2017

Whether a mysterious “crime family” is really out to compromise iCloud and.mac accounts is yet to be seen, but either way the possible extortion of a tech giant is worrisome. Kerem Albayrak, on the other hand, is being accused of listing the database for sale online.”. This is a highly likely scenario.

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Exact Payments

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Tokenization is the process of replacing sensitive cardholder data with algorithmically generated data, ensuring that no actual card information is stored or transmitted, only randomized digits. This additional layer of security blocks fraudsters, making it more difficult to steal credit card data. How does tokenization work?

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2018

We must give credit to the criminals who engineered the recently disclosed data breach that could end up impacting some 500 million guests of Marriott International. Here’s the challenge: Consumers are almost certainly becoming numb to these types of breaches, secure in the knowledge that banks will have their backs.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

In cases like Blackbaud's, in which a security lapse has already taken place, AI offers the opportunity for employers to identify which kinds of breaches and which employees have already been involved in order to understand where and how sensitive data is being kept. Blackbaud's data breach isn't unique, per se.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 6, 2019

Fortune 500 company Tech Data left a server with access to customer and billing data unsecured, and it was compromised by security researchers, according to a report by TechCrunch. The server in question was operating a database that was used to log company events for its StreamOne Cloud service.

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VISTA InfoSec

JANUARY 18, 2024

As a reminder, the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is a comprehensive set of security requirements that all organizations handling cardholder data must adhere to. These requirements’ main objective is to safeguard sensitive cardholder information and mitigate data breaches.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 19, 2016

While Yahoo can’t seem to shake the consequences of its massive data breach, Costco may have finally gotten things right with its co-branded credit card, and IBM is keeping its eye on the blockchain prize. This week’s Data Dive takes a look at the turning points for those big names in payments and commerce.

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FICO

AUGUST 6, 2018

In those models, the goal is to develop depth and breadth of historical data in order to maintain a record of fraudulent activity (e.g., Similar databases exist for valid email addresses, device IDs, and identity details associated with fraud events. It has evolved to become a fresh, interactive hub of payment-specific Big Data.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 1, 2016

1 new release on Amazon — “ Matchmakers: The New Economics of Multisided Platforms ,” sit down with XOR Data Exchange CEO and Founder Mike Cook to get the scoop on how the permission-based data platform works. These exchanges supported by XOR Data Exchange are not your typical shared database platforms.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2018

The drill is well-known now, with a litany of familiar names amid data breaches. Card data stolen from millions of department store customers? And, of course, Facebook is now a household name in a less than savory field: data harvesting. The problem is that the data has been compromised,” said Trilli.

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FICO

JUNE 8, 2020

Criminals are increasingly sophisticated in how they compromise data, and are deploying new tactics across the social engineering lifecycle. Fraudsters buy compromised data (credentials, ID documents, personally identifiable information or payment details). Once harvested, the data is sold.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

consumers had their PII compromised in 2018 alone, and half of all consumers can find their birthdates, passwords, credit card details or even their Social Security numbers floating on the dark web. Half also have more faith in finance to be best prepared to deal with a data breach.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Thirty years later, I find their tagline a rather fitting metaphor for the Equifax data breach and the flurry of headlines made by everyone who now wants to take them — and their two credit reporting agency compadres, Experian and TransUnion — out to the regulatory woodshed. They are not.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 14, 2017

For example, in addition to launching attacks from cloud services, they can also leverage botnets of compromised machines or IoT devices to make the attack operation appear distributed. This, researchers noted, is what can be monitored by hackers through sensors and then enable them to compromise data on the device.

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CB Insights

MARCH 27, 2019

Already this year, at least 30 organizations — including coffee chain Dunkin’ and cloud provider Rubrik — experienced major data breaches. Read our future of data security report for more on this topic. ). This patent is also designed to solve issues around requests for data deletion by users.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 23, 2016

Carding may not be a new technique, but with the wealth of data floating around from larger data breaches and huge databases of compromised payment card data, it’s becoming a new favorite. Stolen card data is everywhere and the price to purchase has dropped significantly. Just to name a few.

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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. The data is out there — and someone else can use it for authentication or fraud.”.

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