Not every data breach needs a hacker; sometimes just a careless employee will do. The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said a now-ex-employee sent records containing Americans’ private data to a personal email account. Over the course of 14 emails, the employee sent records including two spreadsheets containing names and transaction-specific account numbers related to…

After days of outages, NCR Corp. has confirmed that its Aloha point-of-sale (PoS) software platform, used by thousands of restaurants across the US, was taken down by a ransomware attack on one of its data centers. The BlackCat ransomware group has claimed responsibility for the Aloha POS cyberattack. “Please rest assured that we have a…