The Wawa Breach: 30 Million Reasons to Try Dark Web Monitoring

We’re all getting a little more worldly wise to the dangers that lurk around every corner of our digital lives. We know that the flipside of being able to shop, chat, bank and share online at the push of a button is the risk of data theft, ransomware and identity fraud. That’s why we protect our...

Cheddar’s Restaurants Bitten By Credit-Card Breach

Fast-casual stalwart Cheddar’s Scratch Kitchen has become the latest restaurant to suffer a payment-card breach. Cheddar’s, known for its reasonably priced country-fried chicken, pot pies, ribs and other comfort food, has hundreds of locations across the Midwest and the South. It said that it...

Ticketmaster Breach: Just One Part of a Wide-Ranging Campaign

Ticketmaster’s announcement back on June 28 that it was the victim of a payment-card breach ‘turns out to be part of a much larger card-skimming campaign by the threat group Magecart. A whopping 800 e-commerce sites around the world have been targeted by the crooks so far, according to RiskIQ...

Forever 21 Warns Shoppers of Payment Card Breach at Some Stores

Another day, another data breach. This time a fast-fashion retailer has fallen victim to payment card breach. American clothes retailer Forever 21 announced on Tuesday that the company had suffered a security breach that allowed unknown hackers to gain unauthorized access to data from payment car...

Eddie Bauer Confirms Payment Card Breach of US, Canadian Stores

Clothing store Eddie Bauer has become the latest retail chain to acknowledge that malware has led to a breach of its point of sale systems. In a press release .PDF late last week Eddie Bauer confirmed that any customers who used a payment card at a store over the past seven months, from January 2...

Staples Investigating Payment Data Card Breach

The office supply chain Staples Inc. is reportedly looking into a payment card breach, potentially making it the latest in a long line of retail establishments to suffer a compromise over the last year. “Staples is in the process of investigating a potential issue involving credit card data and h...

Kmart Latest Retail Chain to Disclose Payment Card Breach

Kmart is the latest domino to fall in the seemingly endless streak of major retail chain breaches. The discount department store acknowledged on Friday that it fell victim to a “payment security incident” for most of September and some of October. The store, which is operated by Sears Holdings...