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Incident Number: 537 | Reported on 2007-01-17

Incident Details

TypeSummary
Number Affected:94,000,000
Country:US
Data Involved: Credit Cards
Name And/Or Address
Breach Type:Hack
Attack Source:Outside
Data Recovered:No
Lawsuit:Yes
Arrest:No

Over 45 million records hacked, reportedly via weaknesses in wireless deployments at TJX stores.

Organizations Involved

Comments

Mon Dec 10 22:04:39 -0500 2007 - by d2d

We've updated to 94,000,000 as a result of recent unfoldings. Took our time in updating because of the huge jump this represents. DIdn't want to inflate statistics if they turned out to be false or poorly documented, but it seems now appropriate to update.

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