Staples Data Breach: What to Do Now

[Jill Scharr]

Staples said 115 of its U.S. stores were hit by payment-systems malware, resulting in the theft of 1.16 million credit and debit cards.

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[ahnilated]

If you don't use a credit card and use cash the whole problem goes away. You can thank credit card companies for them pushing people to use them instead of cash for this whole issue. Now that doesn't mean that people are not partially to blame for this, they could have been using cash in the first place imho.

 

[Ulf Mattsson]

Staples is just one more “infected with a type of malware that was stealing customers' payment information, including credit- and debit-card numbers, cardholder names, expiration dates and magnetic-strip card verification codes”

My main concern is the successful attack at JP Morgan Chase. The largest US bank lost personal information of 76 million households and it took several months to detect.

I’m also concerned that the U.S. power grid could be shut down.

Unfortunately, current security approaches can't tell you what normal looks like in your own systems and the situation is getting worse according to Verizon. Verizon is reporting that this a growing issue. Less than 14% of breaches are detected by internal security tools according to the annual international breach investigations report by Verizon.

Attackers will always figure out how to get around defenses, so you need to lock down the data that they want to steal.

So we need to protect our sensitive data itself with modern data centric security technology. As consumers, we must demand better protection from the companies we do business with.

Ulf Mattsson, CTO Protegrity

 

[Christopher1]

So we need to protect our sensitive data itself with modern data centric security technology. As consumers, we must demand better protection from the companies we do business with.

They are already doing that. The problem is that if outside businesses can get to the information, OTHER malefactors can as well.

 

[klarkmdb]

"That was Easy"

 

[klarkmdb]

"That was Easy"

 

[ElGato9]

What to do now? Umm... Sue Staples apparently: http/www.abingtonlaw.com/Staples-Credit-Card-Data-Breach-class-action-lawsuit.html