[Dataloss] follow-up: Credit card headaches from TJX breach remain (fwd)

[security curmudgeon]

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http://www.boston.com/business/personalfinance/articles/2007/08/09/credit_card_headaches_from_tjx_breach_remain/

By Se Young Lee
Globe Correspondent
August 9, 2007

Almost seven months after the biggest security breach of financial data in 
the nation was revealed, some banks still appear to be sorting out which 
of their credit card customers were put at risk.

Retail giant TJX Cos., with headquarters in Framingham, revealed this 
spring that at least 45.7 million credit and debit card numbers were 
compromised by hackers who gained access to the company's computer systems 
in the second half of 2005 as well as from May 2006 to January of this 
year. But some companies, such as Citibank, are still reissuing cards for 
customers whose information may have been exposed.

"As a preventative measure we are in the process of notifying and issuing 
new credit and debit cards to some customers whom we believe may be 
subject to increased risk," Citibank said in a statement yesterday.

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