Kimpton Hotels Investigating Payment Card Fraud

Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants, a nationwide chain of 62 boutique hotels, is investigating a string of unauthorized charges on payment cards used at a number of its locations. It’s unknown how many cards are involved, nor at which locations. A Kimpton representative told Threatpost that an...

Payment Cards Exposed in Possible Chik-fil-A Data Breach

It’s been the year of the data breach, so it only makes sense that reports alleging a data breach at the popular fast food chain, Chik-fil-A, would emerge in the final days of 2014. Late yesterday security journalist Brian Krebs reported that an anonymous source at an unnamed financial institutio...

Payment Card Data Accessed in Parking Provider Data Breach

SP+, a parking management services provider, late last week announced that 17 of its facilities in the United States had been breached and hackers may have made off with an unspecified number of payment card numbers. In a statement, the company said it was notified on Nov. 3 by a payment processo...

Chewbacca Tor-Based Malware Targets Point of Sale Systems

Before you think that RAM scraper malware was a phenomenon specific to the Target breach, think again. A four-month-long crime spree targeting point-of-sale systems in a number of industries has been discovered; the campaign, however, is not related to the mammoth Target break-in or other recentl...

BlackPOS Malware used in TARGET Data Breach developed by 17-Year Old Russian Hacker

The Holiday data breach at TARGET appeared to be part of a broad and highly sophisticated international hacking campaign against multiple retailers, involving the heist of possibly 110 million Credit-Debit cards, and personal information. Target confirmed last weekend that a malicious software wa...