In what may be one of a few legal battles regarding financial liabilities of data breaches, the United States District Court ruled that supermarket chain Schnuck Markets is only liable for the first $500,000 in damages resulted from a series of data hacks between 2012...
Now that Home Depot has confirmed its massive data breach, the blame and investigation aftermath starts. Five U.S. states and two U.S. senators separately jumped in to insist that something be done to deal with the cyberattack that “may have gotten away with more than...
Forever 21 has been sued after a shopper became upset when an E-mail address was demanded and then associated with her payment card data—resulting in unsolicited E-mail pitches—contrary to California law. The retail chain used “personal identification information obtained from the cardholder to acquire additional...
To the extent that the lack of evidence can suggest anything, the FBI is saying that the cyberthieves who attacked J.P. Morgan Chase did not continue their assaults any other big U.S. banks. Or, if they did attempt such attacks, those attempts were unsuccessful. “The...
Although the initial reports about the Home Depot databreach indicated the attack was extensive, the latest details suggest the breach seemed to have been chain-wide, hitting virtually every single store in the chain. According to the report on Krebs On Security, the significance of the...
Malware at a payment-card processor was responsible for the theft of details on an estimated 868,000 credit and debit cards used at Goodwill Industries thrift stores, the organization said on Wednesday (Sept. 3). An independent forensic investigator found no evidence of malware on any internal...
Apple is investigating reports that a security hole in one of its online services allowed cyberthieves to download nude photos from the iCloud accounts of celebrities, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday (Sept. 2). The vulnerability in Apple’s Find My iPhone service, which tracks...
It appears that Home Depot may be the large retail victim of a cyberthief gang and its breach—which apparently began as long ago as late April—”could be many times larger than Target, which had 40 million credit and debit cards stolen over a 3-week period,”...
The attack, which stole copies of gigabytes of banking and checking account details, hit JPMorgan Chase & Co. “and at least one other bank,” Bloomberg reported Wednesday (July 27). Bloomberg and other news services said that investigators are exploring whether the attack came from Russian...
