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Data Breach Alert: Nearly 100,000 credit and debit card numbers stolen from Forever 21
Posted by Caitlin on September 15th, 2008
Forever 21 recently announced that 98,930 credit and debit card numbers have been stolen from their computers. This data breach was just one part of a larger theft of more than 40 million credit and debit card numbers, at least some of which were then sold online. Forever 21 customers could be at risk if they made purchases at the store on 3/25/04, 3/26/04, 6/23/04, 7/2/04, 7/3/04, 8/4/07, 8/5/07, 8/13/07 or 8/14/07, or if they shopped at the Fresno, CA location between 11/26/03 and 10/24/05. If you did make a purchase at Forever 21 on any of these dates, you should review your credit card statements for unexpected purchases, and you should also examine a copy of your credit report.
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September 16th, 2008 at 5:44 am
We had a similar issue in Ireland a month ago. The scale was smaller but as a ratio based on population is was as bad. In this instance there was not hack or wireless attemt. Just a brazen and well organized social engineering job. The perpetrators entered stores under the guise of representing card payment companies and requiring to do an upgrade. They were in most cases given unsupervised access to payment terminals and attached their own device gleaning large numbers of fresh card details. The breach was discovered over the same weekend but obviously too late for many. The banks in the main are accepting responsibility but this will come back to the consumer one way or another.
Harriet