Zappos Breach: Protect Your Information

Zappos recently announced that they had been the victim of a cyber attack and that their 24+ million customers would be contacted about the incident. The database accessed did not include credit card or payment data and Zappos has already performed a reset on customer passwords. The breached information included name, e-mail address, billing and shipping addresses, [...]

Chronology of Data Breaches for 2011

With 2011 drawing to a close, it’s time to look at how we fared this year in terms of data breaches in the US. The statistics of data breaches only show known data breaches, so we can expect that the 2011 figure will continue to climb as data breaches that have already occurred are discovered [...]