Over 5 Billion Records Exposed in 2018 Risk Based Security is reporting that there were 6,515 publicly reported breaches in 2018 exposing over 5 billion records. This is a couple hundred breaches less than 2017, but the final numbers are not in yet as breaches continue to be reported. The number of days between discovery […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In what has been a monument to how NOT to handle a data breach, Wendy’s has again revised the number of restaurants affected by hackers. Wendy’s initially refused to release any information about how big the hack was, although bankers were saying that this was hitting them harder than the Home Depot breach did. Then […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In January 2015 Wendy’s disclosed, after many banks already announced, that it’s point of sale system was breached. For months Wendy’s refused to provide any details, only saying that they were investigating things. In May, when it released it’s first quarter earnings report, it said that fewer than 300 restaurants were compromised and all of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As could be expected, the Wendy’s data breach saga continues. A proposed class action lawsuit was filed by a credit union in Pittsburgh representing all banks who were affected by the breach. As reported by Brian Krebs in March, credit unions said that they saw a rise in fraudulent credit card use that was greater […]
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