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In this week's issue: a data breach has occured affecting an online pet supplies store, the U.S. Supreme Court rejects a merchant-backed petition on debit card transaction fees, four Wingstop locations were found to have malware installed on POS systems, and in the latest Rippleshot blog post, we recap Tripwire Inc.'s Retail Cyberthreat Summit webcast featuring Rippleshot Chief Scientist & Co-Founder, Randal Cox.

With a growing problem of retail data breaches over the past year, our friends over at Tripwire Inc. put together a webcast bringing together five security experts to discuss the different phases in a retail data breach lifecycle. This group of experts includes: Sam Heiney, Product Solutions Director for Netop, Ken Westin, Security Analyst at Tripwire Inc., Randal Cox, Chief Scientist & Co-Founder at Rippleshot, Scott Waddell, CTO at iovation and Jeremy Henley, Director of Breach Services at ID Experts.

In this week's issue: the director of the FBI shares new information on the Sony Pictures hack, data breaches appear to be hitting credit unions harder than big banks, automotive parts seller ID Parts suffers a data breach compromising roughly 12,000 customers and Rippleshot takes a look into President Obama's new initiative on data breach legislation.

The Rippleshot team wants to wish you a happy new year and we look forward to what 2015 brings!

In this week's issue: healthcare related data breach costs could reach $5.6B this year, the data breach at JPMorgan Chase could have been prevented with an easy security fix, Nvidia suffers a data breach exposing its employees login information and finally, Rippleshot takes a look back at the year of 2014, dubbed “the year of the data breach.”

In this issue: a U.S. District Judge has ruled that card issuers can sue Target for it’s 2013 data breach, Charge Anywhere, a mobile payment provider, suffers a data breach that lasted nearly 5 years, the cyber attack that hit Sony Studios could cost the company as much as $100 million and a parking company in St. Louis, MO suffers a data breach at Union Station.

Welcome to this week's "Data Breach Ripples" for December 01, 2014. In this issue, we focus on Sony's recent data breach, a data breach compromising parking facilities in Chicago, Philadelphia and Seattle, several banks in the Virgin Islands being hit by a security breach and the personal information of over 25,000 hospital patients in North Carolina has been accessible online for over 2 years.

Welcome to the "Data Breach Ripples" for the week of November 24, 2014. In this week’s issue, we cover the growing list of civil suits facing Home Depot, the recent cyber attack on Sony Pictures and retailers shifting their focus to protecting consumers’ data.

Get caught up with latest news regarding data breaches and key information security topics for the week of November 17th. 

Claiming that retailers don't care about the security of their customers' data is not accurate, but one publication is making the case that retail organizations simply aren't doing enough to protect this sensitive information. They are too complacent, and therefore putting their customers at greater risk for fraud as they are more vulnerable to hacks and security breaches. 

Get caught up with latest news regarding data breaches for the week of September 22nd.

Get caught up with latest news regarding data breaches for the week of the September 8.

Get caught up with latest news regarding data breaches for the week of the September 1.

On July 16th, the MWAA hostedthe 4th annual Shark Attack Innovation competition at their annual MWAA conference in Lombard, IL. This year’s contestants included Textel, VisitBasis, DMI and Rippleshot. Rippleshot, a cloud-based big-data analytics software company that detects databreaches faster by monitoring merchants and the payment network, was announced as the winner of the MWAA 2014 Shark Attack Innovation competition. The program included a 10 minute presentation, followed by Q&A from the Shark Attack panel of judges. Judges rated the finalists on the following criteria:

Update 1: In a Brian Krebs exclusive, sources informed Brian Krebs that in a conference call with several financial institutions, MasterCard shared several updates regarding the Home Depot data breach. According to Krebs' sources, MasterCard told affected banks that the card brand believes that only self-checkout terminals were affected in the breach. At the time of writing, Home Depot neither confirmed nor denied this report as the investigation is still underway.

Get caught up with latest news regarding data breaches for the week of the August 25.