https://thehackernews.com/2017/09/amazon-whole-foods.html
Amazon’s Whole Foods Market Suffers Credit Card Breach In Some Stores
This article talks about the following: Whole Foods Market was acquired by Amazon for 13.7 billion in late August, Whole Foods Market was become a victim of credit card security breach, hacker were able to gain unauthorized access to credit card information for its customers who made purchases at certain venues like taproom and full table series restaurant located within some stores, company has not disclosed details about the total number of stores that were targeted and total number of customers affected by the breach, company did mention that the hacker targeted their point of sale terminals in attempt to steal customer data including credit details, Whole Foods market has hired cybersecurity firm to help with the investigation of the credit card breach and contacted law enforcement authorities of this incident, finally Whole Foods Market is the latest victim of the high-profile cyber-attacks earlier this month Global Tax and Deloitte suffered a cyber-attack.
It will be interesting to see how things unfold in the future. It seems like there is a cyber-attack almost every day but we do not see much action from the government or big organization. Is there a way to minimize or fully eliminate the risk of data breach?
Fascinating article and I agree with you that it will be interesting to see how to eliminate the risk of the data breach in the future. Thank you for sharing.
Donald;
I feel that by now all the hackers have our sensitive information. After Target and Pizza Hut, this is the turn to Amazon’s Whole Foods Market Suffers Credit Card Breach In Some Stores which means so many customers lost already their credit card information including sensitive information such as Full names and Zip codes.
Again, this is another issue that show how much these companies don;t care about their IT securities. They really need to invest on building stronger IT departments.