UPS Admits 51 Stores Hit With Malware For Five Months

The list of corporations that have been victimized by credit card stealing malware in 2014 grew a little longer this week as UPS announced that 51 of its stores suffered a “broad-based malware intrusion” earlier this spring. The company disclosed the breach – which affected franchised locations o...

Data Breach Exposes Customer Payment Card Information

Grocery giants Albertsons and SUPERVALU announced yesterday that a data breach may have exposed the credit and debit card information of an unknown number of its customers at various grocery store locations in more than 18 states. Behind Kroger’s, Albertsons is the second largest grocery store...

University Maryland Breach Exposes SocialSecurity numbers

Attackers breached a University of Maryland database containing more than 300,000 student, faculty, staff, and other affiliated records on Tuesday, according to an apology issued by the university’s president, Wallace D. Loh. While it is not clear exactly how many individuals are affected by the...

Biggest American Bank 'JPMorgan Chase' hacked; 465,000 card users' data stolen

JPMorgan Chase, one of the world's biggest Banks has recently announced that it was the victim of a cyber attack and warned round 465,000 of its holders of prepaid cash cards on the possible exposure of their personal information. In the Security Breach that took place on the bank's website...

Sony Pictures Admits to Another Breach Affecting Some 35k

Sony Pictures Entertainment SPE released a consumer alert yesterday admitting that an attack on SonyPictures.com compromised the personally identifiable information PII of some 37,500 of their customers. Sony said the breach did not spill any credit card information or social security numbers. It...

Insider Allegedly Leaked Data Belonging to 3,000 US Airways Pilots

An insider data breach at the US Airline Pilots Association USAPA has exposed the sensitive financial data of some 3,000 US Airways pilots, according to reports. The USAPA, a union representing more than 5,000 US Airways pilots, claims that the airline recently became aware of an incident in whic...