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Michaels Stores Sued After Reporting Possible Data Breach

Posted on January 27, 2014 by Dissent

Andrew Harris reports: Michaels Stores Inc. (MIK:US), the world’s largest arts-and-crafts retailer, was sued by a customer for failing to safeguard data after the company said some payment-card information may have been used fraudulently. The Irving, Texas-based company said Jan. 25 that it “recently learned of possible fraudulent activity on some U.S. payment cards that had…

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YahooXtra email accounts compromised following security breach

Posted on January 27, 2014 by Dissent

ANI reports: Some of the user accounts of Telecom’s YahooXtra have been reportedly compromised, following a security breach, which is apparently affecting non-Telecom customers as well. Telecom said that Yahoo had acknowledged an email security breach that compromised some YahooXtra email accounts. According to a website, spokeswoman Lucy Fullarton said that Yahoo was investigating the…

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Michaels Stores reports possible card breach

Posted on January 25, 2014 by Dissent

Brian Krebs has the scoop again. This time it’s Michaels Stores (yes, them again) that may have had a security breach. Read more on KrebsOnSecurity.com. Having had the story start to leak out earlier, Michaels has now issued a statement: Michaels Stores, Inc. (the “Company” or “Michaels”) recently learned of possible fraudulent activity on some U.S….

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Data security breach hits Portland-area employees of PCC Structurals (updated)

Posted on January 24, 2014 by Dissent

Richard Reed reports: Sometime between Dec. 30 and Jan. 10, an unidentified person left documents in a Portland-area restaurant that included confidential information about PCC Structurals Inc. employees. The security breach was low-tech, unlike the recent data disaster at Target Corp., in which hackers stole credit-card and other personal information for as many as 110 million customers. But…

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Target to offer Canadian customers free credit monitoring services

Posted on January 24, 2014 by Dissent

So it seems that the deal Target cut with Experian wasn’t available to Target’s customers in Canada. Not surprisingly, some Target customers there politely complained. Now Target has cut a deal with Equifax so that Canadian customers can also get free services.  Canadian customers should go to Equifax.com and enter the code you will have…

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IL: Belvidere Culver’s employee charged with identity theft, 80 victims

Posted on January 24, 2014 by Dissent

A Belvidere Culver‘s assistant manager was arrested Tuesday for stealing the credit and debit card numbers of customers while working the drive-thru window. Curtis Peck, 28, of Rockford was charged with two counts of identity theft, a Class 4 felony punishable by one to three years in prison. Belvidere Police saw an increase in identify…

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