Personal info of 800,000 USPS employees compromised in breach

Tuesday, November 11th, 2014

The US Postal Service has joined the ranks of private sector companies and governmental agencies that have been breached and had data stolen by hackers. According to a statement released by the service on Monday, the attackers managed to find a way into some of their information systems, and have likely ...

Banks: Credit Card Breach at Staples Stores

Monday, October 20th, 2014

Multiple banks say they have identified a pattern of credit and debit card fraud suggesting that several Staples Inc. office supply locations in the Northeastern United States are currently dealing with a data breach. Staples says it is investigating “a potential issue” and has contacted law enforcement. According to more than a half-dozen sources at banks operating on ...

Dropbox has been hacked, change your password immediately

Monday, October 13th, 2014

If you use Dropbox, you need to change your password immediately as it looks like there has been a breach in the security. In a posting on Pastebin, which will not link to as it contains account data, the user claims to have nearly 7 million account user names and ...

Dairy Queen stores hit by ‘Backoff’ malware, payment card data stolen

Friday, October 10th, 2014

Dairy Queen said Thursday the "Backoff" point-of-sale malware infected systems at 395 of its stores, stealing payment card data. The company, which has 4,500 independently owned franchises in the U.S., said in a statement it believes the "malware has been contained." Most of the stores, including one Orange Julius location, were ...

JPMorgan hack exposed data of 83 million, among biggest breaches in history

Saturday, October 4th, 2014

Names, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses of the holders of some 83 million households and small business accounts were exposed when computer systems at JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPM.N) were recently compromised by hackers, making it one of the biggest data breaches in history. The bank revealed the scope of ...