This article is about the latest possible data breach with Kroger grocery store. They claim that some information from current/former employees, and some customers of Kroger Health and Money Services were impacted by an attack on a third-party file transfer tool from Accellion. They confirm that none of its IT systems or any grocery store systems or data were affected by the breach.

The way to prevent this would be to encrypt personal data. There really is not a way to protect ourselves from this kind of attack. As a consumer, we have to give our personal information out for jobs, credit cards, homes, cars, and school. Our personal information is out there. We can only hope that the businesses that obtain our personal information keep it safe.

This incident is on the Slack software (Business communication platform),the company was storing its users’ passwords in plain text for one month, between December 21, 2018 and January 21, 2019. The company has reached out to many of it's customers, requesting they change their passwords.

The way to prevent this from happening in the future is to not store passwords for the clients in plain text. They should be stored encrypted. Plus the user should change their password every 90 days.

Wichita Falls Police department arrested a couple for being in possession of at least 50 stolen identifications. Among the ID's, they also had stolen credit cards, social security numbers, and birth dates. The victims have not been identified yet.

In our normal every day lives we should keep certain information, like birth certificates or Social security cards, at home and locked up.

California state residents may have had their personal data stolen from a cyberattack on a vendor associated with the California Department of Motor Vehicles. They claim "There is more than a year’s worth of customer data that includes license plate numbers and personal addresses may have been compromised from the data breach." (Meek "BGR") The breach targeted Automatic Funds Transfer Services (ATFS), a financial services and data management company that contracts for services, which the DMV uses to verify car owners’ change of address. ATFS was a victim of ransomware attack earlier that month.

Companies should be made aware of breaches in other companies, when they do business with them.