Retail
Staples are the latest in a long line of US retailers breached
Reports are emerging of another credit card security breach this time concerning the Office supplies firm Staples.
They are the latest in a growing list of familiar retail names to have had their security breached. The breach came to light following the detection of fraud patterns across the North Eastern United States.
A statement issued by the company has confirmed reports in a statement saying “Staples is in the process of investigating a potential issue involving credit card data and has contacted law enforcement.”
Morrisons suffers payroll data theft of 100,000 records
Wm. Morrison, one of the UK's largest supermarket chains, has had the details of more than 100,000 staff stolen. While far fewer people have been affected by this data theft than in others recently reported.
The theft covers the payroll records of staff employed by the company and the firm has stated no customer records have been compromised.
Retail, IT and Christmas
Richard Hodson, Head of Technology, Media & Entertainment for the Oval Group shares this white paper on why it pays retailers to think beyond the turkey, festive spirit and the busiest sales period of the year.