Any way you slice it, it's not great news for Pizza Hut customers who learned on Saturday that their personal data was stolen during an Oct. 1-2 breach of the Italian food chain's website.
ShopRite supermarket customers who patronized the chain's store in Kingston, N.Y. may have had their payment card and some health information compromised when the store improperly discarded an electronic signature device used in the store's pharmacy.
In the aftermath of a massive breach at Equifax that exposed the data of 145.5 million American consumers, an independent security researcher reported the possibility of a second incident, prompting the company to takedown a webpage.
A roundup of the top news stories in information security this week, including consulting firm Accenture leaving servers containing personal information completely unprotected and Patch Tuesday addressing a slew of vulnerabilities including a zero-day flaw.
