Retail Victims of Cyber Attacks

Apparently, size is no indication of an organization’s ability to prevent data loss. The following retailers have fallen victim to some type of data loss due to cyber vulnerabilities. As you can see the majority of issues stem from some sort of breach. In many cases, it has taken months before the event was noticed, or the full extent was understood.

 

Organization Year Depth Industry Cause
Landry’s 2015 500 locations Retail Hacked
Wendy’s 2015 unknown Retail Hacked
Harbortouch 2015 4,200 locations Retail Hacked
Baily’s 2015 250,000 Retail Hacked
Barnes & Noble 2012 63 locationst Retail Hacked
British Airways 2015 10,000’S Retail Hacked
CVS 2015 1,000,000’S Retail Hacked
Dai Nippon Printing 2007 8,637,405 records Retail Inside
Gap Inc. 2007 800,000 records Retail Lost PC
Hannaford Grocer 2007 4,200,000 records Retail Hacked
Home Depot 2014 56,000,000 records Retail Hacked
Honda Canada 2011 283,000 records Retail Poor Sec.
Michaels 2014 13,000,000 records Retail Hacked
Natural Grocers 2015 93 locations Retail Hacked
Neiman Marcus 2014 1,100,000 records Retail Inside
Restaurant Depot 2011 200,000 records Retail Hacked
Starbucks 2008 97,000 records Retail Lost PC
Supervalu 2014 200 locations Retail Hacked
Taobao 2016 200,000 records Retail Hacked
Target Corp. 2014 70,000,000 records Retail Hacked
TK/TJ Maxx 2007 94,000,000 records Retail Lost PC
UPS 2014 51 locations Retail Hacked
VTech 2015 5,000,000 records Retail Hacked
Walmart 2015 10 stores Retail Hacked
Staples 2014 94,000,000 records Retail Lost PC
Kmart 2014 unknown Retail Hacked
Goodwill 2014 880,000 records Retail Hacked
Ebay 2014 233,000,000 records Retail Hacked
P.F. Chang 2014 33 locations Retail Lost PC
Aaron Bros. 2014 400,ooo records Retail Hacked
Dairy Queen 2014 395 locations Retail Hacked

 

 

 

Source: Wikipedia