PORTLAND — Maine will receive $130,015 in a multi-state settlement with TD Bank that resolves a 2012 data breach. Attorney General Janet Mills says the state is one of nine that investigated the breach and negotiated the settlement. Mills says the settlement resolves consumer protection and privacy claims against the bank. She says it also […]
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Protect yourself from data breaches
NEW YORK — Data breaches at retailers aren’t going away but there are ways consumers can protect themselves from future heists of their payment card information. Home Depot said Thursday that malicious software lurking in its check-out terminals between April and September affected 56 million debit and credit cards that customers swiped at its stores. […]
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Shaw’s reports possible security breach at Maine stores
LEWISTON — Shaw’s supermarkets has posted a warning on its website that the company has recently discovered a security breach at a number of its stores, including some in Maine. The company does not yet know whether credit and debit card information was stolen, but said the breach appears to have occurred between June 22 […]
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Gotcha: Thousands of Mainers unwitting victims of data breaches in 2013
All those people shopping Stethoscope.com at Christmas got a nasty surprise, and a stethoscope. After the website was hacked over a two-month period, 122 Maine customers were alerted last January that their financial details may have been exposed. They were just some of the 151,000 Mainers who received word in 2013 that their Social Security […]
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Target: 40M card accounts may be breached
MINNEAPOLIS — Target is grappling with security and a public relations nightmare just as the holiday shopping season is wrapping up. The nation’s second largest discounter said Thursday that data connected to about 40 million credit and debit card accounts was stolen as part of a breach that began over the Thanksgiving weekend. The data […]