Landry’s, a popular restaurant chain in the United States, has announced a malware attack on its point of sale (POS) systems that allowed cybercriminals to steal customers’ payment card information. Landry’s owns and operates more than 600 bars, restaurants, hotels, casinos, food and beverage outlets with over 60 different brands such as Landry’s Seafood, Chart […]
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Hackers Stole Customers’ Payment Card Details From Over 700 Wawa Stores
Have you stopped at any Wawa convenience store and used your payment card to buy gas or snacks in the last nine months? If yes, your credit and debit card details may have been stolen by cybercriminals. Wawa, the Philadelphia-based gas and convenience store chain, disclosed a data breach incident that may have exposed payment […]
LifeLabs Paid Hackers to Recover Stolen Medical Data of 15 Million Canadians
LifeLabs, the largest provider of healthcare laboratory testing services in Canada, has suffered a massive data breach that exposed the personal and medical information of nearly 15 million Canadians customers. The company announced the breach in a press release posted on its website, revealing that an unknown attacker unauthorizedly accessed its computer systems last month […]
The 2020 State of Breach Protection Survey – Call for Participation
2010-2019 decade will be remembered as the time in which cybersecurity became acknowledged as a critical concern for all organizations. With rapidly growing security needs and respective budgets, it is now more essential than ever for security decision-makers to zoom out of the ‘products’ mindset and assess their security stack in light of the overall […]
Magento Marketplace Suffers Data Breach Exposing Users’ Account Info
If you have ever registered an account with the official Magento marketplace to bought or sold any extension, plugin, or e-commerce website theme, you must change your password immediately. Adobe—the company owning Magento e-commerce platform—today disclosed a new data breach incident that exposed account information of Magento marketplace users to an unknown group of hackers […]
OnePlus Suffers New Data Breach Impacting Its Online Store Customers
Chinese smartphone maker OnePlus has suffered a new data breach exposing personal and order information of an undisclosed number of its customers, likely, as a result of a vulnerability in its online store website. The breach came to light after OnePlus started informing affected customers via email and published a brief FAQ page to disclose […]
T-Mobile Suffers Data Breach Affecting Prepaid Wireless Customers
Are you a T-Mobile prepaid customer? If yes, you should immediately create or update your associated account PIN/passcode as additional protection. The US-based telecom giant T-Mobile today disclosed a yet another data breach incident that recently exposed potentially personal information of some of the customers using its prepaid services. What happened? In a statement posted […]
Company Detected Years-Long Breach Only After Hacker Maxed Out Servers’ Storage
What could be even worse than getting hacked? It’s the “failure to detect intrusions” that always results in huge losses to the organizations. Utah-based technology company InfoTrax Systems is the latest example of such a security blunder, as the company was breached more than 20 times from May 2014 until March 2016. What’s ironic is […]
Hackers Breach ZoneAlarm’s Forum Site — Outdated vBulletin to Blame
ZoneAlarm, an internet security software company owned by Israeli cybersecurity firm Check Point Technologies, has suffered a data breach exposing data of its discussion forum users, the company confirmed The Hacker News. With nearly 100 million downloads, ZoneAlarm offers antivirus software, firewall, and additional virus protection solutions to home PC users, small businesses, and mobile […]
Rogue TrendMicro Employee Sold Customer Data to Tech Support Scammers
Do you always uncomfortable trusting companies with your data? If so, you’re not alone. While companies do much to protect themselves from external threats, insiders always pose the highest risk to a company’s data. Unfortunately, when we say companies can’t eliminate insider threat completely, cybersecurity firms, who are meant to protect others, are not an […]