Are You at Risk? What Cybercriminals Do With Your Personal Data

Posted in: Legal, Privacy & Security at 28/01/2012 16:35

[CIO] When Zappos notified its customers that their names, email addresses, billing and shipping addresses, phone numbers and the last four digits of their credit card numbers may have been exposed during a data breach earlier this month, the online shoe retailer emphasized that "critical credit card and other payment data was NOT affected or accessed."

That's definitely a relief. It means that the 24 million customers whose information may have been compromised in the breach don't immediately have to worry about finding mysterious charges on their credit card statements at the end of the month.
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