By now you have probably heard that Equifax’s database was breached sometime this past summer. Announced only in September, cybercriminals gained access to about 145.5 million consumers’ personal data. Some consumers in the United Kingdom and Canada were affected as well. Data stolen included full names, Social Security numbers, birth dates, addresses and even driver license numbers. More than 200,000…
This article originally appeared as a column for the Cleveland Jewish News. During a mere 2½-week period around Thanksgiving 2013, as many as 40 million Target shoppers became victims of one of the largest data security breaches in history. Debit and credit card numbers, PIN numbers, magnetic strip data, all stolen, using malware believed to have been written by a…
