The Department of Homeland Security on Friday stated a new kind of cyber attack has affected more or less 1,000 businesses in the U.S. This cyber generally targets cash register system of stores and compel all the companies to re-check their system for this virus.
United Parcel Service, one of the largest shipping companies said that currently data of its 51 UPS stores have been contravened. This means data of almost 105,000 customer transactions which happened between the month of January and August have been compromised.
Generally in these types of data breaches, malicious software captures data at the time of payment when a card is swiped.
As described by DHS that the Secret Service has reacted to network infringements at several businesses which are influenced by the “Back Off” malware. The worst thing is that these customers are yet unaware of the fact that their data have been compromised.
In the meantime, seven point-of-sale-system providers or sellers have verified this news that this malware has affected a large number of their customers’ data.
In these types of cases, cyber attackers tenuously enter into the system of the store in order to remove the payment data of customers.
There is an increase in the reports of data intrusion since last year. Some of the biggest organizations such as Target Corp, Neiman Marcus Group and Grocery Chain Supervalu are influenced by this virus. This attack almost took tens of millions of credit and debit accounts in 2013.
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