http://www.nextadvisor.com/blog/2008/09/15/data-breach-alert-nearly-100000-credit-and-debit-card-numbers-stolen-from-forever-21/ Daily resource for independent consumer information and service reviews Sat, 20 Mar 2010 11:14:16 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.nextadvisor.com/blog/2008/09/15/data-breach-alert-nearly-100000-credit-and-debit-card-numbers-stolen-from-forever-21/comment-page-1/#comment-29621 Harriet Kingston Tue, 16 Sep 2008 12:44:42 +0000 http://www.nextadvisor.com/blog/?p=295#comment-29621 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 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

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