by admin | Apr 28, 2017 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Chipotle Mexican Grill whose sales have only recently improved following food safety issues in 2016 just took another hit with its announcement that it had suffered a data breach affecting the credit card processing systems at its restaurants. The data breach was...
by admin | Aug 31, 2016 | Scam of the day, Site Related
ATM robbery is increasing dramatically. According to FICO Card Alert Service, a company that monitors ATM activity for banks, ATM skimming attacks increased by 546% from 2014 to 2015 and this trend shows no indication of slowing down in 2016. Skimmers are small...
by admin | Jul 22, 2016 | Scam of the day, Site Related
As I reported to you in March a tentative 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 tentative...
by admin | Jul 14, 2016 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Omni Hotels and Resorts just became the latest hotel chain to suffered a massive data breach joining Hyatt, Hotels, Starwood Hotels, Hilton Hotels and Trump Hotels who all suffered similar data breaches in the last year in which credit card and debit card information...
by admin | Jun 1, 2016 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Scamicide readers are familiar with skimmers which are devices that can be attached to any device into which your credit or debit card is placed for processing, such as an ATM, gas pump or pay terminal at a retail store. Once attached, these skimmers are able to...