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After Sears, It’s J.C. Penny: User Data Compromised
The credit card operations of J.C. Penny are run by GE Money. Yesterday, GE Money came out with an announcement that it has misplaced a back up tape that contained the personal information of about 650,000 J.C. Penny shoppers. This includes about 150, 000 social security numbers.
The remarkable part of the incident is that it [...]
Sears Spyware Scandal: Shuts down part of site
We had reported on Thursday about the Sears spyware scandal. Well, the saga continues today with Sears scrambling to make amends after their tryst with spyware went public.
Sears has reportedly shut down a part of another of their e-commerce websites (see the statement at the end of this news) today. The shutdown follows the admission [...]