Staples breach may have affected over a million credit cards

27 Dec 2014 • engadget.com

Good grief, the hacks just don’t stop. Now office-supply store Staples believes that it suffered an attack that compromised some 1.16 million payment cards. Between August 10th and September 16th this year, 115 stores were afflicted by malware that “may have” grabbed cardholder names and payment information

Goodness. These events are becoming so common you could almost use a template article where you just fill in name, dates, # of cards stolen, etc. About time we did away completely with the concept of long-term secret numbers for financial transactions.