PYMNTS

JULY 30, 2019

A former Amazon systems engineer working for Capital One is said to be the woman behind a breach that accessed the data of over 100 million people. Thompson formerly worked for Amazon Web Services, which hosted the Capital One database that was breached.

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VISTA InfoSec

JANUARY 18, 2024

These requirements’ main objective is to safeguard sensitive cardholder information and mitigate data breaches. For instance, web servers, database servers, and DNS should each be implemented on their own separate servers. With the impending retirement of PCI DSS v3.2.1 Requirement and Testing Procedures 2.2.1

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VISTA InfoSec

MAY 24, 2024

Understanding PCI DSS Developed by the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council (PCI SSC), it is mandatory for all businesses to be PCI compliant to protect cardholders, companies, the Merchants and Service Providers they do business with from data breaches, fraud, and unauthorized access. of PCI DSS. 5 / 5 ( 1 vote )

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PYMNTS

MAY 19, 2020

BlockFi suffered a “temporary data breach” on May 14 that exposed some customer information, the company reported in an incident report. The company said that a third party breached and used the phone number of a BlockFi staffer to get into a part of the company’s encrypted back-office system without permission.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 4, 2019

Following reports of its data breach last year, Marriott said on Friday (Jan. 4) that the total number of guest records involved in a Starwood database security incident was less than initially disclosed. million encrypted passport numbers in addition to the 5.25 million encrypted passport numbers in addition to the 5.25

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PYMNTS

MAY 20, 2020

Home Chef, the Chicago-based meal kit and food delivery company, announced a data breach after a hacker sold information on its 8 million customers on a dark web marketplace, according to Bleeping Computer. They provided a sample showing the type of information in the database.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 6, 2018

The hackers behind that data breach at Marriott International may have been working for the government of China as part of an intelligence-gathering effort, reported Reuters. In what may be among the largest data breaches in history, Marriott International said Friday morning (Nov.

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Segpay

OCTOBER 22, 2024

High-profile data breaches have made the risks of storing user IDs clear, with victims suffering from identity theft and financial loss. Blockchain technology offers a solution to these concerns, enabling age verification without collecting or storing sensitive data in a centralized database.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

In what may be among the largest data breaches in history, Marriott International said Friday morning (Nov. 30) that as many as 500 million guests’ data was accessed, tied to a breach of the Starwood hotel guest reservation database. The Marriott breach follows the Yahoo breach that affected roughly three billion accounts.

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Stax

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

There are various methods of enforcing data security, such as data masking, encryption, authentication, and data tokenization. Besides the enhanced data security, other benefits include reduced risk of breaches, easier regulatory compliance, and compatibility with legacy systems.

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Segpay

DECEMBER 13, 2024

If a breach occurs, identity data, once compromised, is hard to restore. For example, a leaked password can be changed, but a stolen fingerprint cannot, underscoring the need for secure storage and encryption practices in identity management.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 17, 2017

We Heart It , the image sharing website, disclosed late last week that there was a potential cybersecurity breach that may have impacted more than 8 million accounts. In a blog post , the company announced news that the data breach may have happened several years ago, but that it was only recently alerted to the cyberattack.

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VISTA InfoSec

JULY 31, 2023

Doing so can help reduce the scope of PCI DSS compliance and minimize the risk of data breaches. Protect Stored Cardholder Data: PCI DSS Requirement 3 reduces risks of storing sensitive data by using encryption, truncation, masking and hashing to protect cardholder data from hackers; thereby ensuring compliance with regulations.

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VISTA InfoSec

JANUARY 22, 2024

It boils down to minimizing the risk of data breaches and maximizing the security of cardholder information. This is achieved through a multi-pronged approach: Data Encryption: Requirement 3 mandates the use of strong cryptographic controls such as encryption for stored cardholder data. PCI DSS v3.2.1 PCI DSS v4.0

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 25, 2019

All user passwords were reset at web hosting company Hostinger after it discovered a customer database was hacked, reports said on Sunday (Aug. The breach included the company’s API database with about 14 million customer usernames, email addresses and passwords out of a possible 29 million customers. .

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 16, 2016

At some point in 2013, cybercriminals made off with the records of more than 1 billion users, including names, birth dates, phone numbers, passwords that were encrypted in an easily broken manner, security questions and backup email addresses used to reset lost passwords. What happened to all that data for three years? No one exactly knows.

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Segpay

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

typing speed, location data), with authoritative databases or records. Proper digital identity verification tools help protect sensitive data from unauthorized access and security breaches. Biometric data is very private and sensitive to cybercrime and any security breach of this data has serious consequences.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 5, 2019

The breach, which may be among the largest in history, was revealed in November 2018. During that time, unauthorized parties had been able to copy and encrypt information that resided in the Starwood database, including around 25.55 million encrypted payment cards were also taken in the attack. While at least five U.S.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 1, 2019

An exposed database run by TrueDialog revealed millions of SMS text messages, according to published reports on Sunday (Dec. The exposed database, which contained years of sent and received text messages, wasn’t password protected or encrypted. Vistaprint spokesman Robert Crosland said customers in the U.S.,

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Fintech Review

MARCH 18, 2025

This emerging technology holds particular relevance for fintech, which relies heavily on encryption to secure transactions and data. Researchers warn that powerful quantum computers could one day crack traditional encryption methods in a feasible time. Over time, cybersecurity threats pushed fintech security to evolve further.

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PYMNTS

MAY 19, 2020

The Security Service of Ukraine is reportedly holding a hacker for allegedly selling a database with 773 million email addresses and 21 million unique passwords, CoinDesk reported. Meanwhile, BlockFi suffered a “temporary data breach” on May 14 that exposed some customer information, the company reported in an incident report.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 16, 2019

Capital One employees raised red flags over security risks before the company suffered a massive data breach. The alleged hacker, Paige Thompson, was a former employee of Amazon Web Services, which hosted the Capital One database that was breached. “We About five years ago, the company started moving its data to the cloud.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Throughout 2017, the total number of enterprise records breached every day, hour, minute, and second each doubled from the year prior according to Breach Level Index (BLI). Data from the Verizon 2018 Data Breach Investigations Report shows that the attack-paths hackers take from initial compromise to final data breach are shrinking.

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CB Insights

MARCH 27, 2019

Already this year, at least 30 organizations — including coffee chain Dunkin’ and cloud provider Rubrik — experienced major data breaches. These high-profile data breaches (among many others over the last few years) have put the general public on high alert, with talk of data protection becoming an increasing priority.

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PYMNTS

JULY 10, 2019

data protection authority will hit Marriott with a £99 million ($123 million) fine for a breach that exposed the data of up to 383 million guests. Last year the hotel company revealed that guests’ data was accessed, tied to a breach of the Starwood hotel guest reservation database. We deeply regret this incident happened.

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FICO

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Look no further than the US presidential debates , where our two candidates have highlighted the need to address hackers, security breaches and even foreign nations that may be using sophisticated cyber tactics to influence the outcome of the upcoming November elections. Data encryption.

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Basis Theory

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Whether that is collecting credit card numbers to transmit with a payment gateway, placing details into a shared customer relationship management system, or storing card numbers in an encrypted database—all of this sensitive information must be protected according to the specifics of the PCI-DSS standard.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 19, 2016

While Yahoo can’t seem to shake the consequences of its massive data breach, Costco may have finally gotten things right with its co-branded credit card, and IBM is keeping its eye on the blockchain prize. Yahoo’s Breach Bungles. The latest data breach is double the size of the other one, which has delayed the closing of the deal.

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Exact Payments

JULY 1, 2024

By Jeremy Smillie, VP of DevSecOps at Exact Payments In an era where data breaches are not just threats but realities, protecting Personally Identifiable Information (PII) is more crucial than ever. Our software partners transmit merchant data to our APIs using Transport Layer Security (TLS) encryption. We implement TLS 1.3,

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PYMNTS

JUNE 19, 2019

“The naïve way to do this would be to take two sensitive data sets, dump them into a single database and do the join and the sum, but then you’ve got everything together and at risk of a data breach.”. This helped with either adding or removing layers of encryption without affecting the computations.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

At a high level, Seshadri told Webster, successful breaches show some common themes. By way of example, he said several organizations that have been breached or hacked have taken days or even months to discover the intrusion — and by then, the damage is done. The devaluation comes through encrypted solutions or tokenization.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 15, 2018

Thus, private blockchain as an extraordinarily tough line of defense against the bad guys who want to breach a firm and take its data. One overarching theme is proactivity, where reactive scrambling had once been the norm in the wake of a breach. ALTR, said Sikora, can take the Social Security number out of the database.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 6, 2019

The server in question was operating a database that was used to log company events for its StreamOne Cloud service. The only part of the data that was encrypted were credit card numbers. The database was very large, and the researchers also found private keys and some passwords.

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Segpay

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

To address this, many systems now use encryption and secure storage techniques such as on-device storage. Instead of transmitting biometric data to a centralized database, it is stored locally on the user’s device, reducing the risk of mass data breaches.

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PYMNTS

MAY 21, 2018

TeenSafe assures parents that the app “employs industry-leading SSL and vormetric data encryption to secure your child’s data. Your child’s data is encrypted — and remains encrypted — until delivered to you, the parent.”. Both of the servers were pulled offline after ZDNet alerted the company. “We

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FICO

DECEMBER 13, 2017

We frequently talk about how PII data from data breaches is for sale on the dark web. For the most part, low-level machines running the Internet do not have entries in DNS databases because typical Internet users have little reason to browse the information on the firewall that protects www.fico.com.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

Many experts are looking directly at Russia for these attempts and breaches. The recent breach of email servers belonging to the Democratic National Committee (DNC) is listed as one such example, especially considering the political firestorm that ensued shortly after. Android Users Can’t Catch A Break.

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