Credit Card Breach at Buckle Stores

The Buckle Inc., a clothier that operates more than 450 stores in 44 U.S. states, disclosed Friday that its retail locations were hit by malicious software designed to steal customer credit card data. The disclosure came hours after KrebsOnSecurity contacted the company regarding reports from...

How to Freeze Credit Report To Protect Yourself Against Identity Theft

If your Social Security number gets hacked in any data breaches, including recently hacked T-Mobile, then there's a way to prevent hackers from misusing your identity i.e. identity theft. The solution here is that you can institute a security freeze at each of the three credit bureaus, Equifax,...

Experian Breach: 15 Million T-Mobile Customers' Data Hacked

If you applied for financing from T-Mobile anytime between 1 September 2013 and 16 September 2015, you have been HACKED! – even if you never had T-Mobile service. T-Mobile’s credit application processor Experian was hacked, potentially exposing the highly personal information of more than 15...

Experian Breach Spills Personal Info of 15 Million T-Mobile Customers

A massive data breach at the credit-reporting agency Experian could wind up having major implications for 15 million T-Mobile customers. The telecom uses the agency, one of the “big three” credit reporting bureaus, to check the credit ratings of its customers. News broke last night however that a...

Millions of Customer Records Leaked in Experian ID Theft Case

An ongoing investigative report has revealed that a man posing as a private investigator may have compromised millions of Americans’ personal and financial records from 2007 to 2013. The news is the latest fallout from last year’s discovery that Experian, one of the “big three” national credit...

Experian Sells Data to Identity theives

The credit bureau Experian appears to have sold an unknown amount of highly sensitive personal information to a Vietnamese national who maintained an online identity theft service, according to a long-running investigative report published by Krebs on Security reporter Brian Krebs. Experian, whic...

Top Credit Agencies Admit Celebrities' Data Stolen

The top credit bureaus have admitted someone accessed prominent Americans’ private data by filling out bogus requests via a Web site used by millions of consumers to access free annual credit reports. “We are aware of recent media reports pertaining to unauthorized access to files belonging to...

14,000 Californians at Risk Following Medi-Cal, DHCS Breach

Medi-Cal, California’s Medicaid welfare program, came clean to customers this week admitting it mistakenly posted almost 14,000 of its users’ Social Security numbers online last month. Providers of In-Home Supportive Services IHSS care in 25 counties are affected by the breach, according to a...

Employee Sends Medicaid Info of 228K To His Yahoo! Account

A South Carolina man was arrested yesterday on charges stemming from a data breach that may have leaked personal information on more than 200,000 Medicaid beneficiaries in the state, including their names, phone numbers, addresses, birth dates and Medicare ID numbers according to a report in the...

Data Breach Affects Two Million NY Customers, State Commission to Investigate

The New York State Public Service Commission announced yesterday they’ll be looking into a data breach that may have exposed the personal information of almost two million customers to unknown attackers. An employee from a software consulting firm contracted by New York State Electric & Gas NYSEG...