Tag: credit card

Capital One Data Breach

July 30, 2019

Capital One Data Breach Capital One is one of the biggest banks in the United States. So, when the news broke of their data breach yesterday (July 29, 2019) customers and the population in general began to panic. What Happened? To begin, Capital One released a statement informing customers and the public of a data breach. In the statement, the bank reported that roughly 100 million US customers and 6 million Canadian customers were among the affected in the data breach. The customer information at risk includes, “credit card applications, including names, addresses, zip codes/postal codes, phone numbers, email addresses, dates of birth, and self-reported income”. Continuing, within that… Read More

How to Protect Yourself While Shopping at the Store and Online

June 8, 2014November 21, 2019

In the last year, some of the biggest data breaches in history have occurred. The Target breach affected over 70 million customers who innocently made purchases at their retail stores. Following was the Ebay data breach, which also affected its large demographic of customers. Ebay and Paypal users typically have a debit/credit card or checking account associated with their username. Statistically, nearly HALF of adult Americans have been a victim of some type of fraud. A comment was recently made to me that it seems like these breaches are becoming less potent because they are happening every day. The fact that people feel they these breaches are less potent is… Read More