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Barnes & Noble said criminals tampered with PIN pad devices at 63 stores to steal debit and credit card information.

The government filed a lawsuit against Wyndham, claiming security flaws led to three data breaches in two years.

A security breach at a card processor may have put 10 million accounts in danger of card fraud.

Capital One and Citibank are alerting credit card customers of an unauthorized data breach of customer names and email addresses. The system breach at Epsilon, a third-party vendor that provides marketing services for many major companies, was announced on April 1. Epsilon works with more than 2,500 clients and sends more than 40 billion emails annually,

The Identity Theft Resource Center, which tracks and monitors security breaches that involve personally sensitive information, reported 662 incidents that exposed more than 16 million records in its year-end 2010 report. The Banking/Credit/Financial category didn’t dominate the list, but quite a few breaches were attributed to companies in this sector. Some of the incidents involved