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follow-up: U.S. Indicts 11 For Alleged TJX Data Theft
From: security curmudgeon <jericho () attrition org>
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 17:47:21 +0000 (UTC)
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org> http://www.crn.com/security/209903419 By Stefanie Hoffman ChannelWeb Aug. 05, 2008 A U.S. federal grand jury indicted 11 people Tuesday on charges that included the alleged theft of more than 45 million credit and debit card numbers from retail giant TJX in what officials call one of the largest data heists in history. The U.S. Attorney's office in Boston said that the individuals indicted were responsible for "wardriving" and then hacking into wireless networks of numerous retailers, including TJX companies, BJ's Wholesale Club, OfficeMax (NYSE:OMX), Boston Market, Barnes & Noble, Sports Authority, forever 21 and DFW Inc. in order to steal tens of millions of credit card numbers. The Framington, Mass.-based retail giant TJX, which owns discount clothing stores TJ Maxx and Marshall's, was by far the hardest hit, suffering a loss of 45.7 million card numbers, which the retailer revealed in March of 2007. [...] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tenable Network Security offers data leakage and compliance monitoring solutions for large and small networks. Scan your network and monitor your traffic to find the data needing protection before it leaks out! http://www.tenablesecurity.com/products/compliance.shtml
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