Marriott announced a hack of their Starwood Hotels and Resorts reservation database. Personal information, credit card numbers and expiration dates may have been potentially exposed in this massive corporate data breach.
Timehop, a popular app for sharing memories, uncovered a security breach that affected the personal data of 21 million users. On July 4, hackers accessed names, email addresses, dates of birth, users’ genders, country codes and phone numbers.
Macy’s has sent letters to customers warning them that a cyber threat targeted customers’ online account information for nearly two months. On June 11, Macy’s cyber threat alert tools uncovered the attack on macys.com and bloomingdales.com customer accounts and blocked the compromised profiles.
The personal information of about 230 million consumers and the records of 110 million businesses were discovered left unprotected on a publicly accessible server.
Adidas is alerting “a few million” customers who made purchases on its U.S. website about a potential data breach where hackers could have accessed some of their personal information. The data includes contact information, usernames and encrypted passwords.
The genealogy service MyHeritage is investigating how email addresses and passwords for 92 million customers found their way to a private external server. On June 4, officials of the company, which claims 96 million users worldwide, acknowledged that a security researcher found the personal information.
The U.S. Congress has made placing or removing a Credit Freeze with TransUnion®, Equifax® and Experian® free for all consumers. The federal Credit Freeze legislation also requires that the three credit bureaus expedite consumer requests to freeze their credit reports.
Chili’s Grill & Bar, which has more than 1,600 restaurants in 50 states, 32 countries and two territories, announced it was the victim of a payment card breach that occurred at some of its restaurants between March and April 2018.
SunTrust Bank is informing 1.5 million customers that their personal information may have been stolen by a bank employee working with an outside criminal party. Information, such as name, address, phone number and certain account balances may have been exposed.
Hundreds of thousands of online shoppers of Delta Airlines, Kmart, Sears and Best Buy may have had their personal information stolen in at security breach of [24]7.ai, a provider of customer service chat software.
