Over 70,000 unencrypted credit card and CCV numbers stolen

It's apparently been a bad month for security. Adobe had a breach, leaking information about nearly three million accounts. Unfortunately, those reports turned out to be conservative with the actual impact reaching 150 million. Microsoft also had a major IE vulnerability that was being actively exploited, but they quickly patched the hole.

Now, according to the Irish Times, the credit card information of over 70,000 people has been stolen from a company called (ironically) Loyaltybuild. Not only were the credit card numbers themselves stolen, but the related CCV numbers were as well. To add insult to injury, the data was sitting on the systems in an unencrypted format, meaning whoever took the data can start using it immediately. In addition to the direct credit card data, roughly 1.5 million people had their personal information stolen -- including names, addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses.