The Rockville, CT.-based dry cleaning firm Swiss Cleaners suffered a point of sale data breach that could have potentially stolen the data from every payment card type used in the eight-store chain for almost one year.
Under the placid waters of the corporate network, hackers lie in wait to launch a breach. Their prey? Sensitive personal information. Teri Robinson reports.
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) got hammered yet one more time for breaches that laid the agency low earlier this year as a report from the Inspector General's office took it to task for the way it awarded a contract to a firm charged with providing identity protection services to those affected by the hacks.
The FTC reached a settlement with Wyndham Worldwide that had challenged its authority to pursue enforcement action against companies regarding security.
TuneCore's database was breached on Friday. Security experts and authorities are working with the online music distributor and record label service to track down the cyber-criminals.
