by admin | Jan 7, 2018 | Scam of the day
Clothing retailer Forever 21 has recently confirmed that it suffered a data breach at an unknown number of its stores between April 3, 2017 and November 18, 2017. While Forever 21 has not switched over to EMV chip credit card technology it does use encryption...
by admin | Sep 30, 2017 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Fast food chain Sonic, which has more than 3,500 locations in 44 states has acknowledged that it had a data breach in its credit card processing systems at an undisclosed number of its restaurants potentially affecting what appears to be at least 5 million credit and...
by admin | May 28, 2017 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Today’s scam of the day is an update of the Scam of the day from April 28th when I first wrote about the data breach at Chipotle Mexican Grill. After a series of food safety problems in 2015, the Chipotle Mexican Grill restaurant chain had recently regained...
by admin | Oct 17, 2016 | Scam of the day, Site Related
As I reported to you last year, in March of 2015 a settlement was reached between Home Depot and the plaintiffs in a class action on behalf of the 56 million victims of Home Depot’s massive data breach which occurred between April and September of 2014. The...
by admin | Nov 23, 2015 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Some of you may remember the 2011 data breach at Michaels, a national chain of craft stores in which 94,000 debit and credit card numbers were stolen along with the PINs for the debit cards. Recently, Crystal Banuelos, the apparent mastermind of the scam, pleaded...