List of recent data breaches

No credit card account numbers or log-in credentials were compromised Over 99 percent of Social Security numbers were not compromised. Compromised information included data that Capital One collects at the time it receives credit card applications: Names, addresses, zip codes/postal codes, phone numbers, email addresses, dates of birth, and self-reported income. Credit scores, credit limits, balances, payment history, contact information Fragments of transaction data from a total of 23 days during 2016, 2017 and 2018 About 140,000 Social Security numbers of credit card customers were compromised. These are comprised of those who used their Social Security number as their employer identification number in applying for small business credit cards. About 80,000 linked bank account numbers of secured credit card customers were compromised. It’s important to watch your credit report to ensure that you don’t find any fraud on it. You can check your credit reports from all 3 … [Read more...] about Step Right Up: Capital One Is The Latest To Report A Data Breach

The stolen information includes names, email addresses, delivery addresses, order history, phone numbers, as well as hashed passwords. Full credit card numbers were not part of the breach. The driver’s licenses of 100,000 delivery workers were also breached. … [Read more...] about Step Right Up: Doordash Is The Latest To Report A Data Breach

Eddo-Lodge addresses issues that are crying out for open discussion. She challenges white British complicity in the face of structural racism and highlights the snail’s pace of progress. This is an uncompromising and rigorously intellectual study of power and ignorance. Those of us who benefit from any privilege that limits another must learn to listen harder if we want to live in a fairer country, and this book is a good place to start listening. For fans of Paul Beatty and, frankly, anyone living in Britain today, this book is required reading. Consider this your clarion call. … [Read more...] about Reading List: The best new books for May 2018

If I want to stay in a 5 star Park Hyatt in the Maldives, Melbourne, NYC, Paris, Sydney, or Tokyo that would cost over $1,000/night, I can instantly transfer 30K points to Hyatt to do that, a value of 3 to 6 cents per point. If you earn 5 points per dollar and each points is worth 5%, that’s like getting a 25% rebate on your purchase! If I need a one-way flight from Cleveland (or Chicago, Detroit, Miami, Montreal, Orlando, Pittsburgh, Toronto, etc) to NYC that can cost $500 each way, I can instantly transfer 7.5K points to British Airways to book a short-haul on American with no last minute booking fees. Or if American doesn’t have availability I can instantly transfer 10K points to United for their short-haul award. That’s a value of up to 7 cents per point. If I want to stay in a non-chain hotel that costs $300/night and don’t want to pay cash, I can redeem 20K points for the room thanks to my Sapphire Reserve card’s minimum … [Read more...] about This Is Why You Should Have An Ink Cash Card: Earning 5 Points Per Dollar On Amazon+More; Master List Of Gift Cards Earning 5x

As a heads up just before we start going any further, in order to actually use an external hard drive with your PS4 console, you’ll need to have downloaded and installed the latest PS4 firmware (the first version to enable external hard drives was 4.50). Once you’re updated to firmware 4.50 or above, your PS4 will be able to support USB 3.0 external hard drives of up to 8TB in size, which is a massive improvement on the default 500GB that comes with the majority of PS4 consoles. With all things considered, if you have ever connected your PS4 to the internet by now, you will almost definitely have a firmware above this by now, but it’s always worth checking just in case. … [Read more...] about The best PS4 external hard drives – how to increase your PlayStation 4 storage space

I’m used to traveling with a rollerboard bag and a laptop bag, but my routine was changed for this trip. As this was a Photo DO, I had my borrowed camera backpack filled with equipment as one bag and my laptop bag in my rollerboard. When I travel without my family I usually travel very light, but this being a Photo DO to the end of the world, I had more carry-ons than ever before along with 2 checked bags filled with winter gear and food. … [Read more...] about DDF Adventure Photo DO Trip Notes Part 1: Heading For Svalbard And The Far North