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.
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 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.
The personal information of 33,420 patients of BJC HealthCare was exposed to the Internet for seven months, the St. Louis-based healthcare company stated in a March press release.
Over 5.5 million health records for patients were breached last year, a significant drop from 2016, according to a report by Protenus, a company that provides an artificial intelligence platform used by health systems and academic medical centers to analyze their medical record systems.
Equifax, Yahoo, Verizon, Dun & Bradstreet, Gmail – and even the IRS. These are just a few of the major data breaches that stole headlines, eroded consumer confidence, and put companies and government agencies on high alert in 2017.
