Tag: customers

July 1, 2022

Argyle announced a new integration with Ping Identity, the intelligent identity solution for the enterprise. The partnership will integrate Argyle into PingOne DaVinci’s no-code identity orchestration service, enhancing Know Your Customer (KYC) and fraud detection through the use of payroll […]

August 27, 2019

Microsoft will be providing some of its customers with one year of free Windows 7 Extended Security Updates (ESU) after January 2020, when extended support for the platform officially ends. In September last year, the company announced plans to provide […]

July 3, 2019

Amazon has acknowledged that it retains the voice recordings and transcripts of customers’ interactions with its Alexa voice assistant indefinitely. The admission raises questions about how long companies should be able to save highly-personal data collected from voice assistant devices. […]

November 6, 2018

HSBC Bank, the seventh-largest banking and financial services organizations in the world and the largest in Europe, has been breached by hackers. The bank is now sending letters to an undisclosed number of customers notifying them that hackers have their […]

September 27, 2018

A data breach targeting women’s apparel giant SHEIN occurred between June and August 2018. Email addresses and encrypted passwords of over 6.4 million SHEIN customers were stolen over the summer after the women’s retailer said it suffered a “concerted criminal […]

October 16, 2017

Late last month, global distributed denial of service (DDoS) protection provider Cloudflare announced that it would no longer charge customers extra when they were under attack. The company claims to have nearly 10 million customers and a presence in 117 […]

December 23, 2016

Fraudsters are targeting Groupon users stolen thousands of pounds from their bank accounts. Many customers reported a massive theft after crooks placed orders in their name by using victims’ credentials likely retrieved elsewhere. Hackers take over the Groupon users’ accounts and place expensive […]

December 19, 2016

Lynda.com, the online learning platform acquired last year by LinkedIn for $1.5 billion, started notifying customers over the weekend that a database containing user information had been accessed by an unauthorized third party. The company told customers it recently became […]

November 28, 2016

Customers who used credit cards at Madison Square Garden Company venues should urgently check their bank statements. The Madison Square Garden Company has confirmed a breach occurred between Nov. 9, 2015 and Oct. 24, 2016, exposing cardholder data. The investigation […]

October 21, 2016

Weebly, a San Francisco-based company that has allowed more than 40 million people create websites with since 2007; will start sending notification letters to all of their customers on Thursday, informing them of a data breach that occurred eight months […]

October 14, 2016

The American retail chain Vera Bradley is the last victim of a data breach, the company announced that hackers have stolen a yet undetermined number of payment card data. The breaches affected customers shopping at its 112 stores and 44 […]

October 14, 2016

Read the fine print. It’s an old piece of advice, going back long before the first webpage ever hit the ether. But the web and app eras have made this old advice far more immediate and pervasive. Company security policies […]

July 12, 2016

The Centrify study of 2,400 people across the UK, Germany and the US, looks at consumer attitudes towards hacking and how likely consumers are to continue transacting with businesses, including retailers, banks, government, travel, health and hospitality organizations, after a […]

April 13, 2016

A former FDIC employee accidentally triggered a major breach exposing data of 44,000 customers. A major data breach at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp (FDIC) exposed the records of 44,000 customers, according to a memo obtained by The Washington Post. […]

March 11, 2016

Broadband providers would often be required to get customer permission to use and share personal data they collect under regulations proposed by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission. Broadband providers have an unrivaled ability to track customers and collect personal data, and […]

September 7, 2015

When #metro bank opened its doors five years ago, it was reportedly the first new #high street bank to launch in the #uk for over 150 years. It may have joined an old club, but now its #customers are at […]