Breaches exposed 1 in 7 US debit cards in 2013

Thursday, July 3rd, 2014

Data breaches at retailers and financial services companies exposed 14 percent of all U.S. debit cards in 2013, according to a nationwide survey by a major ATM network operator. The figure is three times that of 2012 and comes as consumers are using debit cards to make more purchases than ever ...

AT&T customer data compromised in scheme to unlock smartphones

Saturday, June 14th, 2014

Personal information of an unknown number of AT&T Mobility customers was compromised by employees of a third-party vendor seeking to unlock phones, AT&T confirmed. Accounts were accessed without authorization between April 9 and April 21 by employees of one of AT&T's service providers and would have provided access to social security ...

Banks: Credit Card Breach at P.F. Chang’s

Wednesday, June 11th, 2014

Nationwide chain P.F. Chang’s China Bistro said today that it is investigating claims of a data breach involving credit and debit card data reportedly stolen from restaurant locations nationwide. On June 9, thousands of newly-stolen credit and debit cards went up for sale on rescator[dot]so, an underground store best known for selling ...

Spotify: Important Notice to Our Users

Tuesday, May 27th, 2014

We’ve become aware of some unauthorized access to our systems and internal company data and we wanted to let you know the steps we’re taking in response. As soon as we were aware of this issue we immediately launched an investigation. Information security and data protection are of great importance ...

Avast takes community forum offline after data breach

Tuesday, May 27th, 2014

Prague-based antivirus company Avast said Monday it took its community forum offline after a data breach, but payment information was not compromised. Usernames and nicknames, email addresses and encrypted passwords were obtained in an attack over the weekend, wrote Avast CEO Vince Steckler on a company blog. The attack affected less than 400,000 ...