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follow-up: TJX's Projected Breach Costs Increase to $216M
From: security curmudgeon <jericho () attrition org>
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 07:51:51 +0000 (UTC)
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2216942,00.asp By Evan Schuman eWeek.com November 14, 2007 Court filings have estimated that the data from some 96 million credit cards was accessed during the incidents. In a footnote in its Nov. 13 earnings announcement, TJX increased its estimate of pre-tax charges for the world's worst credit card data breach to $216 million. Back in August, it had projected only a $168 million pre-tax hit. The data breach consisted of extensive cyber-thief activity within TJX's network from 2003 through June 2004 and then again from mid-May 2006 through mid-December 2006, TJX said. Court filings have estimated that the data from some 96 million credit cards was accessed during the incidents. [..] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tenable Network Security offers data leakage and compliance monitoring solutions for large and small networks. Scan your network and monitor your traffic to find the data needing protection before it leaks out! http://www.tenablesecurity.com/products/compliance.shtml
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