Starwood Hotels has announced a data breach of its hotel chains which appears to be a “point of sales” malware attack, and it appears personal and sensitive information including credit card numbers has been lost. Based on the investigation, we discovered that the point of…
Consumers are finding that some of the “health apps” and other technologies that have become so readily available may be lacking the privacy protections consumers are accustomed to.
The Federal Communications Commission continues to crack down on hotels and convention centers that are blocking Wi-Fi hot spots and forcing consumers onto privately monitored pay networks.
It’s become a maxim that you “can’t control what’s on the internet.” But why should we accept this in the US when Europe demands and has implemented the “Right to be Forgotten.”
You have probably heard about Windows 10 since it was first offered free of charge to consumers who already have Windows 7 or 8. You may have also heard about questionable privacy practices embedded into Windows 10. Are they a real concern?
The Ashley Madison hack has been something of a sideshow in the data breach community because of the supposed “comedy” of cheating spouses being caught. But it appears there is now some real fallout from the hack.
In 2014, Visionworks, an eye care retailer, misplaced two computer servers that potentially had sensitive personal information. Bloomberg reports that they have now settled with the Maryland Attorney General over these poor practices.
Data breaches have moved from the financial industry, to the healthcare industry, and in a matter of months hackers seem focused on the travel industry now.
Chinese hackers have been implicated again in another cyber attack on US Soil, this time with the United Airlines hack. The hackers who stole data on tens of millions of U.S. insurance holders and government employees in recent months breached another big target at around…
It has been well-known now that in April 2015, the Office of Personnel Management suffered a data breach of millions of government employees’ and contractors’ personal information. Since that time, the Director of OPM has stepped down, and the government has begun to send notices…
Imagine driving down the highway and all of a sudden your radio – magically! – starts changing its own channel. Then, your wipers go. You chuckle. However, then your GPS system tells you that you are in a far away land from your true location,…
The latest data breach seems to have come from CVS Photo online and currently the site is offline. The offline site now states: We have been made aware that customer credit card information collected by the independent vendor who manages and hosts CVSPhoto.com may have been…
