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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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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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