We’re only two months into a new year and already hundreds of millions of personal records have been compromised, including 123 million employee and customer records from sporting retailer Decathlon and another 10.6 million records of former guests of MGM Resorts hotels. These announcements followed fuel and convenience chain Wawa’s revelation that it was the victim of a nine-month-long breach of its payment card systems. Also, Microsoft earlier this month said a data breach spanning 14 years exposed 250 million of its customer records.
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The Dark Art of Turning Mountains of Stolen Data Into Cash
Posted by: Peter Suciu February 28, 2020 04:00 AMWe’re only two months into a new year and already hundreds of millions of personal records have been compromised, including 123 million employee and customer records from sporting retailer Decathlon and another 10.6 million records of former guests of MGM Resorts hotels. These announcements followed fuel and convenience chain Wawa’s revelation that it was the victim of a nine-month-long breach of its payment card systems. Also, Microsoft earlier this month said a data breach spanning 14 years exposed 250 million of its customer records.