TJX Debacle- Double Or Nothing
Friday November 2, 2007
At the beginning of this year it was revealed that customer data at retail giant TJX had been stolen or compromised. As more news came out, TJX ascended to the number one ranking for the largest data security breach ever, with an estimated 46 million customer accounts exposed. The impact to TJX thus far has been fairly minimal. Even with the increased scrutiny and focus on security, the TJX web site was still found recently to be vulnerable to a fairly simple cross-site scripting exploit. Now, according to news sources, the number of compromised accounts has doubled. Court documents allege that TJX used creative math to arrive at the 46 million figure in order to contain the backlash and minimize the impact to them. Now, credit card issuers are suggesting the number may actually be closer to 96 million. Read TJX breach was twice as big as admitted, banks say from The Register for more details.
Comments
Tony: You have to keep this story alive. The FTC is responsible for ID theft and Security of our information. They have not done their job. I sent them a complaint, a asked what they were doing about the problem.
There is a web site that keeps track of every loss of customer data since 2004 or 2005. The numbers are staggering. Also, keep in mind that a Social Security Number is with us for life. If someone has it they can use it tomorrow or 10 years from now.
Hi everybody!
I liked this article very much.
I also read something about an incident where Yahoo USA has sold information from private emails sent through yahoo.com for money to the Chinese government. This lead to the arrest and maybe death or theft of organs (as commonly practised in China today).
Can you tell me more about this incident?
Thanks and greetings,
Peter