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Almost 99,000 Credit Cards Compromised In Data Theft In Forever 21 Retail Stores

2008-09-18 19:20:19 by CyberInsecure in CyberInsecure.com
 
Payment cards used by customers of several Forever 21 Inc. retail stores may have been compromised in a series of data thefts dating back to August 2004. Forever 21, a discount retailer company based in Los Angeles, have been notified by the U.S. Department of Justice in Boston on Aug. 5. There was no explanation
 
Tags: forever, retail stores, payment cards, data thefts, los angeles, boston, department, series, aug
 
 
 
 
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IBM software bundle targets retail theft, data breaches

2008-10-01 00:00:00 by Jon Brodkin in Network World on Security
 
IBM is targeting retail security with a package of software and services designed to prevent physical loss of merchandise, protect against electronic threats and comply with credit card industry regulations
 
Tags: prevent physical loss, electronic threats, ibm, retail security, software, services, protect, comply, package
 
 
 
 
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J.C. Penney customers affected by lost GE Money backup tape

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2008-01-18 10:24:59 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...retailers" which include "many of the large retail organizations Number Affected 650,000 Types of Data Names, addresses, account numbers, Social Security numbers, and other information Breach Description GE Money and it's backup storage vendor, Iron Mountain are unable to locate a backup tape. The unencrypted tape contained sensitive...
 
Tags: penney, penney customers, tape, backup tape, money, sensitive personal information, personal information, penney card immediately, information security practices
 
 
 
 
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YWCA Retirement Fund participants exposed in stolen computer

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2007-12-11 12:23:19 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...retail outlets but must be ordered from the computer manufacturer which requires the computer's serial number, the customer's account number and name. Dell has been notified of the theft. Any attempted order will be flagged, the caller id will be recorded and forwarded to both the Fund and the New York Police Department with whom we met...
 
Tags: ywca retirement fund, retirement fund, fund, computer, information security, information, sensitive information, personal identification information, active fund participants
 
 
 
 
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PCI compliance are you just checking the box?

2007-11-14 22:05:00 by Patrick McGregor in Data Protection, Management and Leakage
 
...retailers are facing in complying with the Payment Card Industry (PCI) standards . I speak with many retailers in my role BitArmor helps them secure and manage cardholder data in their environments. One of the challenges that retail CISOs face is selling senior management on the funding of PCI initiatives. Often, senior management would...
 
Tags: pci, pci compliance, pci requires, address pci challenges, challenges, address, pci initiatives, retailers, data protection benefits
 
 
 
 
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Hannaford and Sweetbay supermarkets announce compromise of 4.2 million credit and debit cards

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2008-03-18 00:07:06 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...retail locations in the Northeast that carry Hannaford products Number Affected 4,200,000 Types of Data Credit card and debit card information Breach Description New England grocery chain Hannaford Brothers says a security breach has exposed 4.2 million customer credit- and debit-card numbers to scammers, with 1,800 fraud cases already...
 
Tags: credit, hannaford, breach description, breach, credit-card data breach, carry hannaford products, information, personal information, information security
 
 
 
 
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Conmen Abuse Web Address Checks

2008-06-12 13:42:39 by Dave Lewis in Liquidmatrix Security Digest
 
...retail website But the UKs payments association said it had seen no evidence that the novel crime was being carried out Its pure chance that we picked this up, said Andrew Goodwill, director of anti-fraud firm The Third Man The scam exploits the mechanics of the Address Verification System (AVS) that many retail sites use to check the address...
 
Tags: address, address verification system, system, check addresses, addresses, fraudsters, fraudsters cash, trigger security systems, check
 
 
 
 
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Montgomery Ward breached, no notification obligation?

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2008-06-27 23:45:03 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...retail properties Evan] The AP story names five of the six Direct Marketing Services retail properties (See Above). I don't know what the sixth is It now runs a Wards.com Web site along with six other sites, including three with Sears brands it has acquired: SearsHomeCenter.com, SearsShowplace.com and SearsRoomforKids.com Milgrom said Direct...
 
Tags: card companies, companies, services, services closely, credit card companies, services retail properties, financial company citigroup, company, montgomery ward
 
 
 
 
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Modelling Shoplifting

2008-09-07 07:30:15 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...retails stores. This type of behavioral pattern recognition. in retail stores,is performed by people (security personnel), not machines, observing people To develop a machine pattern recognition application to detect retail shoplifting we need to build detection models thatare economically feasible. If we are going to use a model of...
 
Tags: store, store-object, complex, model canget complex, model, simple, simple economics, simple model, object
 
 
 
 
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Shoppers advised about deadly mall attacks

2008-10-26 15:51:00 by John Sexton in The Bullet Proof Blog
 
...retail associations, mall employees and shoppers are being advised on how to protect themselves against assailants armed with guns It is a sad reflection of the society in which we live, but statistics show that there is