Data Breach

Editorial: Marketers can take steps to prevent data breaches

Carol Krol August 31, 2009

Arrests were made last week in the largest data breach case ever - 130 million credit card numbers were stolen earlier this year from five corporate entities. The good news is that the US Department of Justice is on the case. But this was only the latest in a long line of data fraud incidents.
 

Three men arrested in largest-ever data breach

Carol Krol August 18, 2009

Three men were indicted in New Jersey on August 17 for stealing more than 130 million credit and debit card numbers, according to the US Department of Justice. It is the largest hacking and identity theft case ever prosecuted by the Justice Department.
 

Inbox Insider: E-mail leaks can challenge businesses

Dianna Dilworth August 12, 2009

E-mail is one of the most important tools of communication for companies, but security risks can make using the channel a challenge. As we saw with the Twitter hack last month, sensitive information in circulating via e-mail and if this is hacked can leave a company's private plans exposed. In addition, a company can be at risk if their customer's private data becomes exposed.
 

Network Solutions starts healing process after data breach

Lauren Bell July 27, 2009

Network Solutions, a provider of Web-related services for small and medium businesses, has started reaching out to customers about a data breach that was discovered in early June. Credit card information on 573,928 individual consumers may have been compromised in the breach, which Network Solutions publicly reported at the end of the day on July 24.
 

Cloud data faces security scrutiny

Lauren Bell July 27, 2009

A recent hack of Twitter corporate data off of the Google cloud server, combined with increasing consumer wariness, has made security "in the cloud" a buzz-worthy issue this summer.
 
 

Direct Group forms unit to handle data breach-related communications

Chantal Todé July 15, 2009

Direct marketing services provider Direct Group has formed a new Compliance & Critical Communications business unit, which will help clients plan for and execute compliance communications in response to data breaches involving identity- or privacy-related information. Direct Group reports that the number of data breaches increased 47% in 2008, as tallied by the Identity Theft Resource Center, with a total of 656 reported breaches compared to 446 in 2007.
 

Top Tips: Keeping your databases safe and secure

Sharon Goldman June 01, 2009

As data collection becomes increasingly complex, sophisticated and essential for marketers, protecting the security of those databases is more important than ever. We asked several top experts to offer their best tips for how marketers can make sure their data stays safe.
 

Comcast usernames found on file-sharing site

Lauren Bell March 18, 2009

Comcast is doing some clean-up work this week on a recently discovered data breach. An initial list of 8,000 Comcast usernames and passwords was unearthed over the weekend on the document-sharing Web site Scribd. Comcast was alerted to the list Monday and immediately had it pulled down for analysis, said Charlie Douglas, director of communications for Comcast's high-speed Internet product. The company is now working with "the proper authorities" to investigate the leak.
 

Monster suffers data breach

Lauren Bell January 28, 2009

Job-seeker Web site Monster Worldwide has detected a data breach that could potentially affect millions of its users.
 
 

Heartland Payment Systems says processing system was breached

Nancy Kearney January 21, 2009

Princeton, NJ-based payments processor Heartland Payment Systems said today its processing system was the victim of a security breach last year but that no merchant data or cardholder Social Security numbers, personal identification numbers (PIN), addresses or telephone numbers were involved.
 

New Click Forensics feature targets trademark issues

Mary Elizabeth Hurn October 06, 2008

Click Forensics, a pay-per-click traffic quality management and click fraud prevention service provider, has added a new feature to its Click Forensics for Advertisers solution called the Trademark Use report. This technology will identify potential trademark abusers who use well-known brand names to generate PPC traffic.
 
 

Countrywide notifies customers of data breach with direct mail

Lauren Bell September 16, 2008

Countrywide is notifying customers that their personal information may have been sold to a third party by a former employee. The mortgage lender, recently acquired by Bank of America, learned of the breach in early August.
 
 

Eleven charged in retail data theft

Lauren Bell August 08, 2008

Eleven people have been charged in connection with a massive credit card data theft that affected multiple retailers, including TJX Cos., BJ's Wholesale Club, OfficeMax, Boston Market, Barnes and Noble, Sports Authority, Forever 21 and DSW.
 

UCSF information leaked by data company

Lauren Bell May 06, 2008

The University of California, San Francisco Medical Center notified patients last month of a data breach that affected more than 6,000 visitors to the pulmonary/chest faculty practice, vascular surgery, pediatric surgery and neurology departments.
 

FTC reaches settlement with Life Is Good

Chantal Todé April 23, 2008

The Federal Trade Commission recently approved a final consent order settling charges online clothing retailer Life Is Good failed to properly secure customers' personal information.
 

FTC reaches data breach settlements with TJX, Reed Elsevier

Lauren Bell March 27, 2008

The FTC has reached settlements with The TJX Companies Inc. and Reed Elsevier after alleging the firms did not provide sufficient security for consumer information. Under the settlements, the companies must implement new security programs and undergo security audits by third-party professionals every other year for 20 years.
 

CA lawmakers bullish on privacy

February 11, 2008

SB 364, passed by the California Senate last week, requires that consumers receive a clear, informative notification letter when personal data kept by a business or public agency has been stolen. It also requires the state to establish a central reporting site to catalog security breaches. The bill awaits action in the State Assembly. Another bill, SB 612, allows identity theft to be prosecuted in the victim's home county. Both bills were written by Senator Joe Simitian (D-Palo Alto).
 

GLOVES OFF: Do PCI standards alone protect data?

February 04, 2008

Robert Russo, General manager at PCI Security Standards Council, and David Taylor, President of PCI Alliance discuss consumer data protection.
 

GE Money says 650,000 consumers' data compromised

Mary Elizabeth Hurn January 22, 2008

Credit card operations service GE Money said the personal and contact information for about 650,000 customers of up to 230 of its retail partners, including JCPenney, could be compromised due to a missing computer tape.
 

Warm state proposes credit freeze law

January 14, 2008

Virginia governor Timothy M. Kaine introduced legislation aimed at standardizing corporate response to data breaches to the state's General Assembly. It guards against identity theft and credit fraud.
 

Sears reacts to privacy issues

Chantal Todé January 14, 2008

Sears Holdings Corpo­ration's handling of customers' privacy is under fire, with pri­vacy advocates crying foul and one customer filing a lawsuit. In one example, the nonprofit group StopBadware last week accused Sears of inadequately disclosing the tracking and data collection software that's used on the Web site My SHC Com­munity.
 

CT governor mulls 'opt-out' registry

Dianna Dilworth January 07, 2008

Governor M. Jodi Rell of Connecticut is in the process of developing a legislative package to create an opt-out registry for online personal data. The Governor will be calling for a proposed opt-out registry, similar to the Do-Not-Call registry, that would establish a centralized, one-time process for Connecticut residents to remove some or all of their private information from Internet search sites, credit card solicitations, direct mail lists and e-mail lists.
 

Card info could cost you

January 02, 2008

The Federal Trade Commission has released a statement reminding merchants to comply with federal law, ensuring that full credit card and debit card num­bers are not printed on customer receipts.
 

TJX Companies, banks settle suit over data breach

Chantal Todé December 19, 2007

The TJX Companies Inc. has entered into a settlement agreement with all but one of the seven banks and bankers associations that sued TJX as a result of a data breach last year.
 

Unauthorized withdrawal

December 14, 2007

The FTC and the attorneys general of seven states have charged payment processor defendants, collectively known as YMA, with violating federal and state laws by debiting or attempting to debit from consumers' bank accounts on behalf of fraudulent telemarketers and Internet-based merchants.
 

Responsibility for data security argued

Chantal Todé December 14, 2007

Identity theft affects as many as 9 million Americans every year, according to the Federal Trade Commission. However, concern over how to safeguard consumers' credit card information is quickly turning into a blame game between retailers and the payment card networks.
 

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