TJX confirmed data against theft was the highest ever
TJX Cos., the owner of TJ Maxx and Marshalls discount, said yesterday that hackers stole at least 45.7 million credit card numbers, the largest ever theft of such data.
More than 75 percent of debit and credit were either expired or the security of data stored on the magnetic strip was not stolen, the company said in a regulatory filing late Wednesday. TJX proved to be the violation of January and depositing whose scope.
TJX also said personal data about 455000 people, including figures for driving licences and military identification cards were stolen. The company said it is not known if any of credit card numbers or personal data transmitted by thieves. The U.S. Secret Service and TJX try to identify pirates.
The theft of a record for the amount of credit card numbers stolen, “said Avivah Litan, an analyst at Gartner, Inc., a consulting firm that specializes in technology issues.
The computers were shut down for the first time in July 2005, then from mid-May 2006 until mid-January 2007, the company said. The information in connection with sales in TJX stores, took place in the years 2003 and 2004.
TJX had driver’s license and other personal data of customers return merchandise without a receipt. TJX, it is notifying those involved with writing.
The company said it is before any action in connection with the violation of federal courts and state of Alabama, California, Massachusetts, Puerto Rico and in the courts of the province in six Canadian provinces.
The flight probably also the details of all transactions in TJX stores, with the exception of Bob, a clothing store operates, particularly in the north-east of the USA. TJX also operates property and Home AJ Wright to the USA; winners, Home Sense in Canada and TK Maxx in the UK
Experts say TJX’s indications that safety deficiencies in many companies with consumer data: the absence of data to delete immediately, upon request of the customer transactions and the protection of secrets about how these data are protected by encryption.
“It is not clear when information was deleted, it is not clear, had access to what, and it is unclear whether the data remain in all these files encrypted, it is very difficult to know what size these, “said Deepak Taneja, Chief Executive Officer of Aveska, Waltham, Mass.-based businesses, advises companies in the field of information security.
The case has asked banks to reissue cards to customers as a precautionary measure against another on cases of fraud detected as far away as Sweden and Hong Kong, after the Massachusetts Bankers Association, is the pursuit of fraud in the context of reports of Framingham, Massachusetts-based TJX.
The arrests, said that the case of a fraud gift card, in which 10 people suspected of infringing the acquisition of data from the TJX hackers to purchase Wal-Mart gift cards in northern Florida. The group - which is not supposed to have committed the TJX Hack - then be used to purchase tickets for $ 1 million worth of electronics and jewelry at Wal-Mart, Sam’s Club’s Stores, in Gainesville, Fla. , Police.
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