Zack Whittaker reports: Travelex, a major international foreign currency exchange, has confirmed it has suspended some services after it was hit by malware on December 31. The London-based company, which operates more than 1,500 stores globally, said it took systems offline “as a precautionary measure in order to protect data” and to stop the spread…
School software vendor Active Network suffers data breach
Doug Olenick reports that Active Network’s Blue Bear Software platform reported that unauthorized activity in its network in October resulted in customer PII being exposed. The company reported the issue to the California Attorney General’s office stating it recently became aware that between Oct. 1, 2019 and Nov. 13, 2019 there was illegal activity taking place on…
TX: Landry’s notifies customers of payment card data breach
Their press release: Landry’s, Inc. (“Landry’s”) takes the security of payment card data very seriously. Years ago (beginning in 2016), Landry’s installed a payment processing solution that uses end-to-end encryption technology at all Landry’s owned locations. Landry’s is notifying customers of an incident that it recently identified and addressed involving payment cards that, in rare…
7 security incidents that cost CISOs their jobs
Dan Swinhoe reports on 7 incidents that resulted in CISOs losing their job. Before you click on the link to read the story, see if you can name the 7 companies from memory or prediction. I’ll give you one hint to be fair: these are not all incidents in which the CISO was fired or…
Ghosts in the Clouds: Inside China’s Major Corporate Hack
Rob Barry and Dustin Volz report: The hackers seemed to be everywhere. In one of the largest-ever corporate espionage efforts, cyberattackers alleged to be working for China’s intelligence services stole volumes of intellectual property, security clearance details and other records from scores of companies over the past several years. They got access to systems with…
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