Tweet While data breaches are as common as any other daily occurrence in the business and individual worlds, the large security incidents don’t happen as often, especially if you think that one of the breaches in the top ten all time largest data exposures dates back to 1984. 2011 is not yet over and it already [...]

Tweet The “I am legend” of the hacking and data theft world, Albert Gonzales, decided to plead guilty and now faces 15 to 25 years in jail. Gonzales is accused of masterminding a hacking circle that stole 130 million credit and debit card numbers from major retail chains such as Barnes and Noble, T.J. Maxx, [...]

Tweet Security magazines and news sites have been raving about the case of Albert Gonzales. This man holds a record no one is really proud of: he has been charged with the largest number of stolen credit and debit cards accounts, about 130 million of them. The story of Gonzales is rather complicated. After being [...]

Tweet CoSoSys, a leading developer of endpoint security and portable storage device applications, has just released My Endpoint Protector (MyEPP), the first Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) application to deliver Data Loss Prevention and device control “in the cloud”. MyEPP will help companies manage the internal and external security threats created by the broad availability and use of [...]

Tweet Remember TJX? The company who had experienced the largest data breach in history? The one that exposed at least 45.7 million debit and credit card accounts to fraud, theft and other menaces? Yes, that TJX. This company is the perfect show case to scare off companies into implementing an effective endpoint security and data [...]

Tweet We’ve all come to refer to the TJX data breach as the largest one in history, with an estimated 45.7 million credit card accounts exposed through a brech in the discount retaler’s wireless network. Some even place the number of affected acounts in the vicinity 94 million. Whichever the real number is, it is [...]

Tweet It has recently  been discovered that the people behind the largest security breach in history, TJX, a heist affecting 46.5 million cards, have also breached US retailer Forever 21, lifting about 99,000 debit and credit cards. As the Register reported, Forever 21 discolesed the breach on their site, letting everyone know they found out [...]

Tweet We’ve written before about what’s going on in the TJX case, also known as the biggest security breach and data theft incident ever. Keeping our good habit, here are some details on what’s happening to those arrested in this case. The first one to plead guilty of credit card fraud of those arrested was [...]

Tweet The FBI has arrested 11 people in the case of the largest identity theft and data breach in history that targeted TJX and other companies. The suspects of which three are US citizens are believed to have taken part in the theft of over 40 million credit and debit card accounts from 9 major [...]

Tweet TJS, the company where the world’s biggest data theft involving credit card information occurred, fired an employee who exposed the company’s faulty security practices by leaving posts in an online forum. The story of employee showing how easy it was to breach TJX was made public by the Register. Security was so lax at [...]