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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2020 19:02:56 +0000
Fresh on the heels of a disclosure that Microsoft Corp. leaked internal customer support data to the Internet, mobile provider Sprint has addressed a mix-up in which posts to a private customer support community were exposed to the Web.
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2020 20:12:16 +0000
In late December 2019, fuel and convenience store chain Wawa Inc. said a nine-month-long breach of its payment card processing systems may have led to the theft of card data from customers who visited any of its 850 locations nationwide. Now, fraud experts say the first batch of card data stolen from Wawa customers is being sold at one of the underground’s most popular crime shops, which claims to have 30 million records to peddle from a new nationwide breach.
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2019 13:32:21 +0000
On Nov. 23, one of the cybercrime underground’s largest bazaars for buying and selling stolen payment card data announced the immediate availability of some four million freshly-hacked debit and credit cards. KrebsOnSecurity has learned this latest batch of cards was siphoned from four different compromised restaurant chains that are most prevalent across the midwest and eastern United States.
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2019 14:43:18 +0000
National Veterinary Associates (NVA), a California company that owns more than 700 animal care facilities around the globe, is still working to recover from a ransomware attack late last month that affected more than half of those properties, separating many veterinary practices from their patient records, payment systems and practice management software. NVA says it expects to have all facilities fully back up and running normally within the next week.
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2019 20:47:34 +0000
Top domain name registrars NetworkSolutions.com, Register.com and Web.com are asking customers to reset their passwords after discovering an intrusion in August 2019 in which customer account information was accessed.
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2019 21:47:58 +0000
Reporting on the exposure of some 26 million stolen credit cards leaked from a top underground cybercrime store highlighted some persistent and hard truths. Most notably, that the world’s largest financial institutions tend to have a much better idea of which merchants and bank cards have been breached than do the thousands of smaller banks and credit unions across the United States. Also, a great deal of cybercrime seems to be perpetrated by a relatively small number of people.
Read MoreCredit to Author: David Ruiz| Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:56:37 +0000
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2019 19:04:21 +0000
Business-to-business payments provider Billtrust is still recovering from a ransomware attack that began last week. The company said it is in the final stages of bringing all of its systems back online from backups.
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