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Online Businesses Often Steal And Exploit Customer Data Collected During Cancelled Transactions

Joseph Steinberg

Over the past year I have experimented to see how various retailers handle personal information that they collect from customers, especially when such information is collected as part of a purchase made by the customer in what appears, at first glance, to be some “amazing deal.”

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Online Retailers That Cancel Purchases Continue To Utilize Personal Information Gathered During The Attempted Transactions

Joseph Steinberg

While we have become somewhat accustomed to the data collection practices of online retailers seeking to analyze our purchase histories in order to better target their marketing efforts, many people may not realize that even some well-known retailers also use data provided by people whose purchases the retailer itself cancelled.

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Holiday Shopping Readiness: How is Retail Data Security Holding Up?

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Holiday Shopping Readiness: How is Retail Data Security Holding Up? Retailers have been prepping for this season all year and are ready to provide a safe, secure, and seamless customer shopping experience. According to the National Retail Federation (NFR), retail sales during 2024 will grow between 2.5%

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Holiday Shopping Readiness: How is Retail Data Security Holding Up?

Security Boulevard

Holiday Shopping Readiness: How is Retail Data Security Holding Up? Retailers have been prepping for this season all year and are ready to provide a safe, secure, and seamless customer shopping experience. According to the National Retail Federation (NFR), retail sales during 2024 will grow between 2.5%

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Fashion brand Guess hacked, DarkSide ransomware group the likely culprit

SC Magazine

A Guess retail store. Following news that noted fashion brand Guess suffered a data breach in which personal information may have been stolen, cybersecurity experts on Tuesday said that retailers should take this case as motivation to lock down their cyber defenses. N509FZ, CC BY-SA 4.0 link] , via Wikimedia Commons).

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Oregon Consumer Privacy Act (OCPA)

Centraleyes

It also provides clear guidelines for businesses that operate in Oregon or process data about Oregon residents, regardless of where the business is located. The law is particularly relevant for businesses across various sectors—such as retail, finance, technology, and healthcare—that handle consumer data on a large scale.

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From Online Fraud to DDoS and API Abuse: The State of Security Within eCommerce in 2022

Security Boulevard

What are the biggest cybersecurity threats affecting online retailers today? For this report, Imperva’s cybersecurity experts analyzed 12 months of data, collected from our global network of customers, and have made this information available just in time […].