follow-up: Hancock Fabrics confirms skimmers found in some stores

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Hancock Fabrics confirms skimmers found in some stores
March 5, 2010 by admin

Hancock Fabrics today confirmed what had been reported in the media back 
in October and November of 2009: customers in a number of states had their 
debit and credit card data stolen by skimmers in some of the stores. The 
data theft occurred during the period of August-September, 2009, but 
reports of fraud did not appear in the media until October.

In a press release issued today, Hancock Fabrics said:

     While the number of potentially affected stores involved in this 
situation is limited, the data accessed may have included customer 
information such as the name printed on a customer.s payment card, the 
card number, the card expiration date, and/or a PIN number when one was 
entered in a PIN debit transaction. It is important to note however that 
this theft does not involve customers. social security numbers.

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