The past few days, I’ve been looking at my twitter, and I’ve been seeing articles on various breaches at merchants including a merchant that has had a bad history of problems, a grocery chain I’m fmailiar with that isn’t in this area, and even including the ransome articles, you could say that the data is breached unless a backup is restored or payment is made. This seems to be now an every day occurrence, and one that will not be going away anytime soon.
The one that really crossed my desk that Krebs On Security posted about was in regards to an Iowa company who got hit. Breach at Hy-Vee Supermarket Chain Tied to Sale of 5M+ Stolen Credit, Debit Cards is the article title. Its not the number of people effected that I was concerned with, it was the chain. I know someone who went to their market, but I didn’t know they are also a gas chain as well. Only the gas station portion of their chain got hit, which is a good thing, but at the same time, we just don’t know.
There are other aspects which we could discuss, but at the same time, this is now pretty much a daily thing at all kinds of merchants.
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