Lawsuits mounting over data breach at TJX

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http://www.boston.com/business/ticker/2007/06/lawsuits_mounti.html

Friday, June 8, 2007
Lawsuits mounting over data breach at TJX

TJX Cos. faces federal lawsuits in five additional states over a data theft
that exposed at least 45 million credit and debit cards to potential fraud,
according to a regulatory filing Thursday by the owner of stores including
T.J. Maxx and Marshalls.

A quarterly filing said TJX was named in nine new lawsuits filed since the
company's March 28 update on a theft believed to be the largest in the U.S.
based on the number of customer records compromised.

Thursday's filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission says
complaints seeking class-action designation on behalf of customers were
filed in April and May in the federal courts of five additional states:
Illinois, Michigan, Missouri, Ohio and Texas.

Three new lawsuits were filed over the past two months in Massachusetts,
where cases had previously been brought earlier in the year. The March 28
filing had listed more than a dozen lawsuits in Alabama, California,
Massachusetts, Puerto Rico and six Canadian provinces. The Massachusetts
cases against Framingham-based TJX have been consolidated.

In addition to listing TJX as a defendant, some of the lawsuits also name
Cincinnati-based Fifth Third Bancorp, which processed some payment card
transactions for TJX.

TJX said in Thursday's filing that it "intends to defend all of these
actions vigorously," and Fifth Third has said it believes there are
"substantial defenses" against the claims it faces.

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