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How to Improve Digital Privacy and Trust Between Consumers and Companies

In the U.S., the past year was the most active to date for passing state-by-state data privacy laws. Following suit with GDPR…

How to Put an End to Data Breaches Involving Sensitive Customer Data

Data breaches pose a significant risk to digital retailers, leading to lost customer trust and potentially far worse. Whether it’s malicious code…

As Data Breaches Continue, Merchants Face More Account Takeover Fraud

The year 2019 may go down as one of the worst for data breaches and account takeover fraud (ATO). These two types…

Macy’s Confirms Payment Data Breach; ‘Small’ Number Of Customers Affected

Macy’s has confirmed that its web site was hacked with malicious scripts in an attempt to steal customers’ payment information. Macy’s told…

Macy’s Reveals Two-Month-Long Data Breach

Macy’s has informed online shoppers of a data breach that lasted nearly two months. The breach affected an unspecified but “small number…

5 Steps To Avoiding A Data Breach

Seems like another retailer announces a data breach every day and each is worse than the one before. Target and Home Depot…

Data Breach At Chatbot Service Potentially Affects 100,000 Sears Consumers

UPDATE: Best Buy confirmed in a statement that a number of customers may have had their payment information compromised during the [24]7.ai payment…

Saks Fifth Avenue, Lord & Taylor Confirm Data Breach Affecting Up To 5 Million Shoppers

On April 1, HBC confirmed a report that hackers had breached payment systems in its Saks Fifth Avenue, Saks Off 5th and…

Vera Bradley Reveals Data Breach In Store POS Systems

Bad news for Vera Bradley shoppers; the handbag and accessories retailer announced that hackers may have accessed customer data from its in-store…

MICROS Data Breach Could Involve Russian Cybercriminals

Computer systems at MICROS, a division of Oracle, have suffered a data breach that also has compromised a customer support portal for…

Despite Rise In Data Breaches, Retailers’ Confidence In Handling Them Increases

Retailers are gaining confidence when it comes to handling cybersecurity issues even as data breaches continue to increase. As many as 75%…

Breach Exposes Details Of 3.3 Million Hello Kitty Users, But No Data Is Stolen

More than three million accounts associated with the Hello Kitty brand on SanrioTown.com, HelloKitty.com and MyMelody.com were left vulnerable to data theft,…

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