GDPR compliance has yet to be fully embraced by firms on a global scale, yet headlines from this past week show just what the repercussions might be against a new regulatory landscape. As noted late last week, a data breach at British Airways was revealed...
Darden Restaurants announced Wednesday (August 23) that the data on 567,000 payment card numbers may have been exposed. In a press release, the restaurant chain operator said it was notified on August 16, 2018, by federal authorities that a legacy point-of-sale system for some of...
Equifax Security chairman and chief executive officer Richard Smith recently penned an Oped in USA Today in which he vowed to provide protections to everyone who was impacted by a massive data breach that potentially affected 143 million customers. In his open letter to consumers,...
Verizon is expected to move ahead with its acquisition of Yahoo’s core assets even after Yahoo disclosed another massive data breach potentially impacting millions of consumers. According to a report by Bloomberg, which cited experts, Yahoo isn’t alone in getting hacked, and with the short attention spans of...
September 11, 2018
RiskIQ, the security firm, told outlets on Tuesday (Sept. 11) that the data breach at British Airways was due to credit card skimming installed by malware hackers. According to reports, Yonathan Klijnsma, a threat researcher at RiskIQ, told the outlet that the same group of hackers that breached Ticketmaster may be behind the attack at British […]
August 23, 2018
Darden Restaurants announced Wednesday (August 23) that the data on 567,000 payment card numbers may have been exposed. In a press release, the restaurant chain operator said it was notified...
December 28, 2016
Verizon is expected to move ahead with its acquisition of Yahoo’s core assets even after Yahoo disclosed another massive data breach potentially impacting millions of consumers. According to a report by Bloomberg, which...
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...
