VISA and MasterCard are alerting banks across the country about a recent major breach at a U.S.-based credit card processor. Sources in the financial sector are calling the breach “massive,” and say it may involve more than 10 million compromised card numbers. Update, 4:32 p.m. ET: Atlanta-based processor Global Payments just confirmed that they discovered a breach in early March 2012. […]
It’s hard to believe, but it’s time again for another installment of Verizon’s annual Data Breach Investigations Report. This year’s report represents our largest dataset ever, with 855 confirmed security breaches accounting for a combined 174 million compromised records. As always, we analyze the data and attempt to explain what happened, who did it and […]
BOFH: Moon landings, Pong and the case of the smoking server – Embrace, extend, exterminate … Two UK airports scrap IRIS eye-scanners – I’m glad I didn’t pay in to be part of this. The ICO has been busy… Sensitive council data sent to hundreds via PERSONAL EMAIL – ICO fines Cheshire East £80k for data breach Child abuse files […]