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Court filings double estimate of TJX breach
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2007-10-26

Significant security shortcomings led to the data breach at retail giant TJX -- a breach which credit-card companies now say compromised more than 94 million accounts, according to court documents made public on Thursday.

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Court filings double estimate of TJX breach 2007-10-26
Anonymous
The flashing adds were so distracting it made it impossible to read the article....

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Why store the card numbers? 2007-10-28
Anonymous
As far as I understand, shops like Amazon are allowed to store your credit card number and the expire date, in order to make 1-click shopping work.

If so, why are they allowed? It should be simple to generate a ticket when the card is validated the first time. The ticket could then be used to deb...

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Court filings double estimate of TJX breach 2007-11-20
Anonymous
If the card data wasn't retained, AS IF the intruders wouldn't have caught it as it was captured for processing anyway. Admittedly more involved, however not by any means difficult, regardless of location of the source of capture. The banks are kidding themselves, TJX merely provided less deterrence...

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