Hackers the only winners in credit ripoff

Published 16:25:58 26.04.2007
The numbers are out on the largest data security breach in history, and they're not pretty. U.S.-based TJX Companies, Inc., which owns Winners, Homesense and TJ Maxx, managed to expose at least 45.7 million credit card numbers, as well as other personal data of customers, to a sustained, multi-year hacker attack.
Every time an outraged shopper is interviewed in front of a Winners store, the company pays for its carelessness in the court of public opinion. But is that enough? Maybe not. In fact, perhaps someday you, Mr. or Ms. Winners shopper, will be getting a cheque in the mail. Read on. TJX admitted recently in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that it "learned of suspicious software on our computer systems" on Dec. 18, 2006. More info can be found at :Sourcehttp://www.businessedge.ca/article.cfm/newsID/15188.cfm