As companies like Target and Home Depot begin to clean up their credit card protecting acts, the cyber thieves are moving on to a different class of victim. This week, Service Systems Associates acknowledged that they had been hacked and as a result, some of their clients systems were compromised. How this works is this: […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]UPDATE: OPM said that 3.6 million of the 4.2 million people affected by the first breach were also in the casualty count of the second breach, so the total should be around 22 million instead of 25 million. However, they added 1.8 million fingerprints to the mix. OPM said that notifications for the second breach […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Bitstamp, a European bitcoin exchange, suffered a breach on January 4th of this year. According to a breach report apparently prepared for Bitstamp, the breach was a result of a determined adversary and a very typical but rookie mistake on the part of a Bitstamp administrator. The breach cost Bitstamp 18,997 bitcoins worth a little over […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]BBC is reporting that several of the Trump hotels point of sale systems likely have been hacked. Trump’s initial response to questions was to decline to comment. Later, after the news of the breach was published, Eric Trump, Donald’s son, said that like “virtually every other company these days” they had been alerted to suspicious […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The common wisdom these days is that consumers are numb to data breaches, but Stax Consulting asked a thousand people and the results show that is not the case. This is just one more reason why avoiding being breached is still in your interest. For those of you who are concerned, I will make a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]IAPP published a summary of the hearings on Capitol Hill regarding the OPM breaches. The revelations certainly explain the mess, but also continues to raise the question about where Congress has been over the last 6 years. It is certainly OK to beat up OPM management, but I don’t see Congress taking any of the […]
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