{"id":3865,"date":"2018-04-05T09:30:21","date_gmt":"2018-04-05T13:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/Life-Insurance-Blog\/?guid=32f7b4616ebc1500296044da54402bde"},"modified":"2018-04-05T09:30:21","modified_gmt":"2018-04-05T13:30:21","slug":"sears-delta-air-lines-say-customer-payment-information-breached-in-cyberattack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2018\/04\/05\/sears-delta-air-lines-say-customer-payment-information-breached-in-cyberattack\/","title":{"rendered":"Sears, Delta Air Lines say customer payment information breached in cyberattack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Department store chain Sears Holding Corp and Delta Air Lines Inc said on Wednesday some of their customer payment information may have been exposed in a cyber security breach at software service provider [ 24]7.ai.<\/p>\n<p>Sears said it was notified of the incident in mid-March and the incident led to unauthorized access to the credit card information of under 100,000 of its customers.<\/p>\n<p>Technology firm [ 24]7.ai, which provides online support services for Delta, Sears and Kmart among other companies, found that a cyber security incident affected online customer payment information of its clients, it said.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"related_links\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/business.financialpost.com\/pmn\/business-pmn\/air-canada-says-some-hotel-bookings-caught-up-in-orbitz-data-breach\">Air Canada says some hotel bookings caught up in Orbitz data breach<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/business.financialpost.com\/news\/economy\/feds-unheralded-102b-rainy-day-fund-kept-for-the-improbable-like-cyberattacks\">Ottawa has $102 billion tucked away in a little-known fund for black swan events like a cyberattack<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The incident happened on or after Sept. 26, 2017 last year and was found and resolved on Oct. 12, the company said.<\/p>\n<p>Delta says only \u201ca small subset\u201d of customers were affected, with payment information exposed. It says no other personal details about customers, such as their passport, security or frequent-flyer account information, was affected.<\/p>\n<p>The No.2 U.S. carrier said while a small number of its customers would have had their information exposed, it cannot be said with certainty if their information was accessed and compromised.<\/p>\n<p>Sears said its stores were not compromised and their internal systems were not accessed in the breach. There was no impact on the information of customers using a Sears-branded credit card, the retailer said.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2018, with a file from the Associated Press<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The incident happened on or after Sept. 26, 2017 last year and was found and resolved on Oct. 12<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3865"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3866,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3865\/revisions\/3866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}