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 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]While OPM still garners most of the attention and the number of potentially compromised records continues to rise – that number now could, possibly, be as high as 32 million – 1 in 10 Americans, other reports show that credentials for other government users can be found on Pastebin. Part of the problem is password […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This is a slightly different version of a breach. A Montefiore Medical Center employee stole information on patients and sold it to her confederates for as little as $3 a record. According to ABC News, during 2012 and 2013, 32 year old Monique Walker printed out thousands of patient’s records including names, socials, birth dates and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]A new trend is emerging with hackers. Rather than going after large companies like Target and Home Depot (not that those guys are now safe), hackers are going after the vendors that support small companies. In this case, eCellar, a vendor that provides point of sale software to many California wineries, has told their customers […]
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