Batteries.com Credit Card Data Stolen

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http://www.zendzign.com/2009/05/batteriescom-credit-card-data-stolen/

Batteries.com Credit Card Data Stolen
Posted by Peter Zendzian in Wednesday, May 27th 2009   under: PCI, 
Security    Tags: credit card, data breach, PCI

Yet another data breach involving theft of credit card data has been 
announced. On March 13th, Batteries.com received notice from a customer 
about potential unauthorized activity on their credit card. They later 
discovered the Batteries.com network had been breached from around 
February 25, 2009 to April 9, 2009. The breach involved theft of names, 
addresses, and credit card information.

This breech at Batteries.com shows that a merchant does not need to be 
large like Heartland to be targeted by hackers.

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