Another day, another data breach

As faithful readers of the blog know, when I start with a sentence reporting the latest data breach uncovered by Krebsonsecurity, it means that a massive number of credit and debit cards have once again been stolen by hackers. According to the website, a popular underground store selling credit and debit cards is offering to sell more than 5.3 million new accounts belonging to cardholders from 35 states. It now appears that this treasure trove of information was stolen from the Hy-Vee Supermarket chain, which apparently has hundreds of stores in the Midwest.

On August 14, the company announced that because it “takes the security of payment card data very seriously,” it wanted to make its customers aware of an investigation it was conducting into a “security incident” that focused on payments made at affiliated gas stations, restaurants, and supermarkets.

Since the supermarket chain is based in the Midwest, hopefully this will not impact your members; it does, however, give me the opportunity to once again point out obvious points that so many of our policy makers refuse to acknowledge or act on.

 

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