Data Security

Recent events should serve as wake-up calls for organizations in the retail and hospitality space to evaluate their third-party vendors.

Malware was installed on the Backcountry Gear website for roughly three months, during which payment cards may have been compromised.

Some financial institutions have indicated that credit cards recently used at Jimmy John's locations have been used to make fraudulent purchases.

Attackers are brute-forcing remote desktop software to infect point-of-sale devices with relatively new malware known as Backoff.

Nearly 650,000 Paddy Power customers who made an account prior to 2010 had data compromised in a breach.

Out of the 237 disclosed data breaches last quarter, encryption was used in only 10 instances.

About 350 CVS Caremark customers are being notified that a programming error resulted in mailers containing their personal information being sent to the wrong customers.

Seattle University is notifying an undisclosed number of donors that anyone with a Seattle University computer account could have viewed scanned checks.