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Re: Hannaford spending millions to upgrade after securitybreach


From: "TS Glassey" <tglassey () earthlink net>
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 13:11:59 -0700

If these new 'controls' don't meet the ones that Judge Grimm put in place in 
Lorraine v Markel then what will it matter?

todd glassey

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "lyger" <lyger () attrition org>
To: <dataloss () attrition org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 12:25 PM
Subject: [Dataloss] Hannaford spending millions to upgrade after 
securitybreach



http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5ic85268s4GzOT78ixJKz-vlSzxuwD90725C00

Hannaford Bros. Co. said Tuesday it is spending millions of dollars to
enhance the security of its data network following a massive security
breach that exposed up to 4.2 million credit and debit card numbers to
fraud.

It was during the card approval process that customer accounts at grocery
stores in the Northeast and Florida were compromised from Dec. 7 to March
10. That exposure occurred even though the company met the latest
standards for data security.

Company officials said Tuesday that the new measures include encryption of
all card numbers during the entire time they are within the supermarket
chain's data network. Hannaford also said it has installed a "24/7-managed
security monitoring and detection service" from IBM to detect intrusions.

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