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Charges were filed today against eleven people who stole 40 million debit and credit cards from several stores, including the infamous TJX breach. Other affected companies include BJ’s Wholesale Club, OfficeMax, Boston Market, Barnes & Noble, Sports Authority, Forever 21 and DSW Inc.
Whew, that’s a lot of data leakage. If only there were some standard that companies processing credit cards were to be held to…
Remember that prescreening frequent fliers could subject themselves to which would allow them to breeze through airport checkpoints? It turns out the data for some 33,000 travelers may have been exposed after the laptop was misplaced in San Francisco’s airport.
The thing is, the laptop was lost, and subsequently found, in the same locked room in which it had been left. They are now claiming, contrary to initial reports, that the data is secured by two levels of password protection. Now, if those levels are BIOS password and Windows login, yes, it is protected by two levels of protections, both of which are easily circumvented.
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