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Re: TJX breach involved 45.7m cards, company reports
From: Adam Shostack <adam () homeport org>
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 10:33:54 -0400
Largest breach? What about Axciom at 1.6 billion records? On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 02:06:15AM +0000, lyger wrote: | | (Keep in mind that these are credit card NUMBERS, and not PEOPLE... people | often have more than one card. Attrition's Dataloss Database (DLDOS) will | be updated accordingly) | | http://www.boston.com/business/ticker/2007/03/tjx_breach_invo.html | | At least 45.7 million credit and debit card numbers were stolen by hackers | who broke into the computer systems at the TJX Cos. in Framingham and the | United Kingdom and siphoned off data over a period of several years, | making it the biggest breach of personal data ever reported, according to | security specialists. | | TJX, the Framingham discounter that operates the T.J. Maxx and Marshalls | clothing chains, also reported in a regulatory filing yesterday that | another 455,000 customers who returned merchandise without receipts had | their personal data stolen, including drivers' license numbers. "It's the | biggest card heist ever," said Avivah Litan, vice president of Gartner | Inc. "This was obviously done over a long period of time, in many | locations. It's done considerable damage." | | [...] | _______________________________________________ | Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) | http://attrition.org/dataloss | Tracking more than 158 million compromised records in 609 incidents over 7 years. _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tracking more than 203 million compromised records in 609 incidents over 7 years.
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- Re: TJX breach involved 45.7m cards, company reports B.K. DeLong (Mar 28)
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- Re: TJX breach involved 45.7m cards, company reports James Ritchie (Mar 29)
- Re: TJX breach involved 45.7m cards, company reports DAIL, ANDY (Mar 29)
- Re: TJX breach involved 45.7m cards, company reports B.K. DeLong (Mar 28)
- Re: TJX breach involved 45.7m cards, company reports Adam Shostack (Mar 29)
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