As of June 10th, the United States Secret Service is now working with P.F. Chang’s China Bistro on a breach investigation that involves a compromise of customer credit cards. According to Brian Krebs (an expert security journalist) credit cards numbers that were used at the restaurant chain started showing up for sale on underground websites ran by cyber criminals. These credit cards were cards that were used at the P.F. Chang’s restaurants. The restaurant chain has over 200 locations throughout the United States. Although it has not been confirmed yet, several recent breaches have resulted from malicious software that was installed unknowingly on point of sale devices. The company has… Read More
Continue ReadingHow to Protect Yourself While Shopping at the Store and Online
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
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