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In this week's issue: a U.S. District Court ruled in favor of breached merchant Schnucks, Samsung is set to debut their mobile payment platform, an exploit found in the Mariott hotel's app may have exposed the personal data of its customers, an Albany-based Health System is notifying over 5,000 patients of a data breach, and Rippleshot summarizes Tuesday's U.S. House Subcommittee hearing on data breach legislation.

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.

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. 

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 August 25.