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J.C. Penney customers affected by lost GE Money backup tape

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2008-01-18 10:24:59 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...retailers" which include "many of the large retail organizations Number Affected 650,000 Types of Data Names, addresses, account numbers, Social Security numbers, and other information Breach Description GE Money and it's backup storage vendor, Iron Mountain are unable to locate a backup tape. The unencrypted tape contained sensitive...
 
Tags: penney, penney customers, tape, backup tape, money, sensitive personal information, personal information, penney card immediately, information security practices
 
 
 
 
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YWCA Retirement Fund participants exposed in stolen computer

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2007-12-11 12:23:19 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...retail outlets but must be ordered from the computer manufacturer which requires the computer's serial number, the customer's account number and name. Dell has been notified of the theft. Any attempted order will be flagged, the caller id will be recorded and forwarded to both the Fund and the New York Police Department with whom we met...
 
Tags: ywca retirement fund, retirement fund, fund, computer, information security, information, sensitive information, personal identification information, active fund participants
 
 
 
 
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PCI compliance are you just checking the box?

2007-11-14 22:05:00 by Patrick McGregor in Data Protection, Management and Leakage
 
...retailers are facing in complying with the Payment Card Industry (PCI) standards . I speak with many retailers in my role BitArmor helps them secure and manage cardholder data in their environments. One of the challenges that retail CISOs face is selling senior management on the funding of PCI initiatives. Often, senior management would...
 
Tags: pci, pci compliance, pci requires, address pci challenges, challenges, address, pci initiatives, retailers, data protection benefits
 
 
 
 
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Hannaford and Sweetbay supermarkets announce compromise of 4.2 million credit and debit cards

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2008-03-18 00:07:06 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...retail locations in the Northeast that carry Hannaford products Number Affected 4,200,000 Types of Data Credit card and debit card information Breach Description New England grocery chain Hannaford Brothers says a security breach has exposed 4.2 million customer credit- and debit-card numbers to scammers, with 1,800 fraud cases already...
 
Tags: credit, hannaford, breach description, breach, credit-card data breach, carry hannaford products, information, personal information, information security
 
 
 
 
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Conmen Abuse Web Address Checks

2008-06-12 13:42:39 by Dave Lewis in Liquidmatrix Security Digest
 
...retail website But the UKs payments association said it had seen no evidence that the novel crime was being carried out Its pure chance that we picked this up, said Andrew Goodwill, director of anti-fraud firm The Third Man The scam exploits the mechanics of the Address Verification System (AVS) that many retail sites use to check the address...
 
Tags: address, address verification system, system, check addresses, addresses, fraudsters, fraudsters cash, trigger security systems, check
 
 
 
 
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Montgomery Ward breached, no notification obligation?

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2008-06-27 23:45:03 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...retail properties Evan] The AP story names five of the six Direct Marketing Services retail properties (See Above). I don't know what the sixth is It now runs a Wards.com Web site along with six other sites, including three with Sears brands it has acquired: SearsHomeCenter.com, SearsShowplace.com and SearsRoomforKids.com Milgrom said Direct...
 
Tags: card companies, companies, services, services closely, credit card companies, services retail properties, financial company citigroup, company, montgomery ward
 
 
 
 
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Do you trust the merchants to protect your credit cards?

2007-12-11 09:01:26 by Khalid Kark in Security & Risk Management
 
...Retail Federation (NRF) Chief Information Officer and Senior Vice President, David Hogan wrote a letter to the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Standards Council requesting that the card industry to stop requiring merchants to store complete card numbers. Currently, some merchants are required to keep credit card numbers for up to 18 months to...
 
Tags: card industry, card, payment card industry, credit card, merchants, credit card companies, provide merchants, merchants change, security
 
 
 
 
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The Cipher on the Wall

2007-05-24 00:00:00 by Ari Juels in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
...retail transactions on the Web. If there is writing on the wall for 1024-bit RSA, though, what's written is in cipher--and it's wholly unclear how long the cryptanalysis will take
 
Tags: wall, 1024-bit rsa, short journalistic leap, recent announcement, retail transactions, wholly unclear, cipher, fancy raises, trade publication
 
 
 
 
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Wireless LAN scan finds big security holes in NYC retailers wireless nets

2008-01-15 00:00:00 by John Cox in Network World on Security
 
...retailers have "bulletproof" WLAN security, according to a new onsite survey by AirDefense during the National Retail Federation trade show. But the remainder have weak or non-existent defense, putting company, customer, and employee data at risk New Webcast: How to Profit with Remote Support Advertisement Discover how remote support can...
 
Tags: remote support, nyc retailers, onsite survey, non-existent defense, employee data, wlan security, fuel, advertisement, remainder
 
 
 
 
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Luck-based Security?

2008-01-17 13:19:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...retail customer I went into, and I say, Why hasn't this [TJX-scale breach] happened to you? They say, Luck . All these systems were buil