29 Mar
Hannaford Bros. confirmed yesterday that the source of the data breach that compromised 4.5 million credit and debit cards was Malware - malicious code secretly installed on their servers. And yet they were PCI compliant.
Posted in Credit card, Data Breach, credit card fraud, e-Commerce, fraud, fraud trends, merchant by: Tom Mahoney
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22 Mar
What’s Different?
If you’ve been following the press on the recent Hannaford grocery chain’s data breach, you may have noticed something a bit different. Those differences mean that this could be the worst data breach ever in terms of financial impact on both the issuers and the card holders.
According to all the reports, it was a […]
Posted in Credit card, Data Breach, credit card fraud, e-Commerce, fraudulent use of cards, merchant by: Tom Mahoney
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25 Jan
If you think banks are safe from hackers, it’s time to think again. A computer-security firm, said this type of cyber-attack has become “a commonplace occurrence.”
Posted in Data Breach, fraud, identity theft, profit from fraud by: Tom Mahoney
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