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Online Retailers That Cancel Purchases Continue To Utilize Personal Information Gathered During The Attempted Transactions

Joseph Steinberg

While we have become somewhat accustomed to the data collection practices of online retailers seeking to analyze our purchase histories in order to better target their marketing efforts, many people may not realize that even some well-known retailers also use data provided by people whose purchases the retailer itself cancelled.

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Online Businesses Often Steal And Exploit Customer Data Collected During Cancelled Transactions

Joseph Steinberg

Over the past year I have experimented to see how various retailers handle personal information that they collect from customers, especially when such information is collected as part of a purchase made by the customer in what appears, at first glance, to be some “amazing deal.”

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Fashion brand Guess hacked, DarkSide ransomware group the likely culprit

SC Magazine

A Guess retail store. Following news that noted fashion brand Guess suffered a data breach in which personal information may have been stolen, cybersecurity experts on Tuesday said that retailers should take this case as motivation to lock down their cyber defenses. N509FZ, CC BY-SA 4.0 link] , via Wikimedia Commons).

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From Online Fraud to DDoS and API Abuse: The State of Security Within eCommerce in 2022

Security Boulevard

What are the biggest cybersecurity threats affecting online retailers today? For this report, Imperva’s cybersecurity experts analyzed 12 months of data, collected from our global network of customers, and have made this information available just in time […].

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What is progressive profiling and how can it benefit your business?

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

madhav Tue, 07/04/2023 - 05:10 As the data trust gap between customers and businesses continue to grow, and as third-party cookies become redundant, there is an urgency to adopt a modernized approach to customer data collection. Progressive profiling introduces a fresher and far more proactive take on data collection.

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Decoding Security 117: Security on the Go

SiteLock

Continuing to deal with the fallout from the Cambridge Analytica data scandal, last week, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, testified before U.S. Congress admitting he never audited Cambridge Analytica to ensure the Facebook user data collected had been deleted.

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A discount isn’t just for Christmas – why data can hold the key to relationships that go beyond the festive season

IT Security Guru

Specifically, it has driven an unprecedented number of people online, to shop and perform numerous transactions which they can no longer do in person – and companies and industries, including retail, have responded in turn. There is no doubt retail has been one of the sectors most disrupted by the pandemic.