Update: Best Buy has announced they were also affected by this breach.
Sears & Delta airlines have both been affected by a data breach. Technology company [ 24]7.ai provide online support services for both companies among others has found that online payment information of its clients has been affected. Key details:
- Happened on or after September 26th, 2017
- Was resolved on October 12th, 2017
- Passport, government identification & SkyMiles information were not affected
- Credit card information was compromised
- Sears stores and their internal systems were not breached
- Both companies claim that they were not informed until mid March about the breach
- Delta has launched an official website to deal with the issue.
- Sears has a similar website here and will launch a dedicated phone support system
- Customers directly impacted should be notified directly
I’m not sure how many times I need to say it, but companies are obviously not taking securing personal data of their consumers seriously. Obviously the penalties in places for such breaches are not high enough to get these companies to take these breaches seriously. Just recently we’ve seen Panera Bread, Lord & Taylor/Saks and Orbitz. If you think you’re the victim of any data breach, we recommend reading this post and following the recommended steps. This isn’t fun and games, data breaches have the potential to have significant negative impacts on consumers lives and it’s about time that the penalties involved match the damage that can be done.
