VISTA InfoSec

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Data breaches, cyberattacks and misuse of personal information are severe threats challenging the privacy of customer’s data, they can not only damage a company’s reputation but can also lead to heavy fines if compromised. To overcome these challenges, data protection laws are established.

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The Fintech Times

JULY 30, 2024

The cost of data breaches has been on a steady incline for the past decade. However, evidence from IBM , a multinational tech firm, suggests that in the next 10 years, breaches could cost a lot more as we just experienced the highest year-on-year jump in cyber attacks (10 per cent).

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PYMNTS

MAY 14, 2019

Japan’s Fast Retailing, the company that owns the Uniqlo retail chain, said that data from upwards of 460,000 customer accounts was compromised by hackers from April 23 to May 10, according to a report by CNBC. law enforcement authorities and cooperated with the federal agencies.”.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 3, 2021

We also immediately reported this matter to federal law enforcement and are now in the process of notifying impacted customers.”. Customers whose call data has been compromised, even if their names haven't been obtained, are at heightened risk of attacks such as phishing by bad actors pretending to be mobile carriers.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 21, 2019

Canadian lender Desjardins Group revealed that it has been the victim of a data breach that could impact more than 2.9 The firm was contacted by law enforcement on June 14 with information confirming that the personal information of more than 2.9 Passwords, security questions, and PINs were not compromised.

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PYMNTS

JULY 30, 2019

The documents said Thompson accessed the data through a “misconfiguration” of a firewall on a web application. . Capital One revealed the massive data breach in a news release on July 29, 2019. The breach impacts about 100 million individuals in the United States and around 6 million in Canada.

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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

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Nordstrom has suffered a data breach that exposed employee names, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, checking account and routing numbers, salaries and more. ” Nordstrom has since notified law enforcement and started an investigation. “We The retailer isn’t the first to be hit with a breach.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 5, 2019

The upside is AeroGrow does not collect other personal information about its customers, such as Social Security number, personal identification number (PIN), driver’s license number, or financial account information, so the only data compromised was related to the credit card. ” This is the latest malware attack on a company.

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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 Hy-Vee takes the security of payment card data very seriously,” the company said in a statement on its website. “We

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

Fast food chain Arby’s confirmed that credit card data was stolen from thousands of its customers due to a data breach that took place last month. Though the retailer wasn’t named at the time, PSCU said more than 355,000 credit and debit cards issued by PCSU-associated banks were compromised in the data breach.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

It is effectively impossible for the vast majority of crime units to access stored phone data in a criminal investigation without the user’s permission — the downside to such secure encryption. More recently, data breaches reportedly went up 15 percent year over year with 424 million compromised data files (and this was before the Yahoo!

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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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PYMNTS

JULY 30, 2019

The security breach at Capital One that exposed 100 million credit card applications and thousands of bank accounts and Social Security numbers is rapidly seeing repercussions. . Kevin Zosiak, who lives in Stamford, Connecticut, and whose personal information was compromised in the breach, filed the suit in federal court in Washington, D.C.,

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Ring denied any claims that the company’s data was compromised. Our security team has investigated these incidents and we have no evidence of an unauthorized intrusion or compromise of Ring’s systems or network,” said a company spokesperson to BuzzFeed. “It law enforcement agencies. On Tuesday (Dec.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Though not a new hack, the data breaches at Yahoo nevertheless comprised the largest cyberattack of all time, so it’s only fitting that we include this month’s court decision to move forward with litigation. No addresses, banking information or social insurance numbers were compromised by the glitch. EDGAR Database.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 13, 2020

The rules would mandate that companies use automated means to detect unlawful content and also appoint corporate officers for 24/7 coordination with law enforcement officials. In an example of fines tied to data breaches and compromises, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is fining Dixons Carphone £500,000 (about $650,000).

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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

JUNE 25, 2018

Cybercriminals have a new favorite weapon in their quest to allude regulators, law enforcement and corporate security departments: account takeovers. The level of sophistication required to compromise someone’s online account is very low, especially in the wake of all these mega-breaches coming out,” Endler said. “It

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 2, 2017

It remains unclear whether Sonic is the only company whose customers’ cards are being sold in the five million-card batch at Joker’s Stash, or if (as reports indicated) those cards are being mixed in with the ones stolen from other eatery brands that may be compromised by the same attackers.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 2, 2018

Retailer Hudson’s Bay has disclosed that customers at Saks and Lord & Taylor stores in North America have had their payment cards compromised. The breach, which is believed to involve 5 million cards, would be one of the largest involving payment cards over the past year.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

In September, the consumer credit agency Equifax reported that the personal information of roughly 143 million Americans was compromised in a data breach of epic proportions. Meanwhile, the recently released PYMNTS Global Fraud Index , produced in collaboration with Signifyd, found that instances of global fraud increased by 5.5

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PYMNTS

JULY 28, 2017

BKK apparently pays about $1 million per year for T-Systems to maintain its IT infrastructure, which was so easily compromised by a data breach. Neither the BKK nor T-Systems took any responsibility for the bugs, claiming that there was nothing wrong with the system and that all holes in the software had been patched.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Freedom Hosting II was considered to be the largest hosting provider for anonymous websites, and the posted databases included information such as private messages between users and code from servers used to operate compromised computer networks.

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PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2019

The company is working with the appropriate law enforcement authorities in connection with this matter,” KeyCorp said in the filing. The bank is currently working with law enforcement on the issue. To the best of my knowledge, this is the first publicly known major data breach in Bulgaria,” he said. “It

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 24, 2016

Typically, this begins with hackers gaining access to stolen credentials through the types of massive data breaches that have made headlines in recent years. Whether its payment data or personally identifiable information (PII), the compromised credentials are quickly turned around and sold to fraudsters.

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VISTA InfoSec

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Data Fiduciary as per the DPDP Act 2023: Data fiduciaries bear the responsibility for adhering to the Act, even when a data processor carries out processing activities on their behalf. Report any Personal Data Breaches to both the Data Protection Board and Data Principals. Clause 8(1), DPDP Act.

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PYMNTS

JULY 16, 2020

A hundred thousand data breaches after the great Target breach of late 2013, and the world has more or less gotten used to hackers getting into places they ought not be, and making off with money or data that they ought not have. As of 2020, high-profile hacks are no longer a massive surprise.

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