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 Sun, 12 Feb 2012 03:05:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 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-55159 Eun Hentges Sat, 27 Aug 2011 00:50:49 +0000 http://www.nextadvisor.com/blog/?p=295#comment-55159 Thanks for the article, how can I make is so that I receive an alert email when you write a fresh post? Thanks for the article, how can I make is so that I receive an alert email when you write a fresh post?

]]> 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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