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FIN7 hacking group stole credit card and debit card information from millions of consumers who have purchased at Saks Fifth Avenue, Saks Off 5th and Lord & Taylor stores. Parent company Hudson’s Bay Co. stated that the breach didn’t affect its online shopping sites or other brands.
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On March 29, 2018, Under Armour announced that about 150 million accounts on its popular health app MyFitnessPal were hacked in February 2018. The affected data includes usernames, e-mail addresses, and hashed passwords. The company doesn’t collect Social Security numbers or driver’s license information, and credit card data is collected and stored separately. The company recommended that all users change their passwords.
For most users, the company uses the hash function “bcrypt” to convert all passwords into a hard-to-crack hash. However, some of the users had their password hashed using a less secure hash function called “SHA-1”.
The company recommended that all users change their passwords.
The root cause for the data breach wasn’t immediately disclosed.
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