Latest credit breaches: Kmart and Dairy Queen

Sears Holdings just announced it, no indication as to how many cards or a date range but they are saying that no cards are yet being used fraudulently. We'll see how long that holds true. They're also saying only Track 2 data was compromised, so no personal identity info stolen that could promote ID theft, just simple credit theft. It was a point of sale hack, so either the same group that did Target/Michaels/Home Depot/etc or someone using the same malware package.

The Dairy Queen breach was suspected in August but only now confirmed, no indications how long or how many cards were compromised. This one was a cash register compromise, so probably a different batch of crooks.

I just had my card replaced because of the Home Depot hack, we use Kmart as my wife's pharmacy and both of us have used our cards there. So if our cards ever stop working, now we know why, and at least it's a good thing that our bank is actually being preemptive.

http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/10/malware-based-credit-card-breach-at-kmart/