[Infowarrior] - FW: Stop & Shop reports credit data was stolen / Card readers reveal tampering

[Richard Forno]

(c/o MS)

Stop & Shop reports credit data was stolen
Card readers reveal tampering

By Peter J. Howe, Globe Staff  |  February 19, 2007

SEEKONK -- With help from US Secret Service agents, Stop & Shop
Supermarket Cos. executives scrambled yesterday to determine how many
consumers may have had their credit and debit card data stolen by
high-tech thieves who apparently broke into checkout-line card
readers and planted the equivalent of bugs to steal information.

Stop & Shop said customer information, including personal
identification codes for cards, was confirmed stolen from
supermarkets in Coventry and Cranston, R.I. The company said it had
found evidence that card readers were tampered with in a similar way
at four other stores in Seekonk and in Bristol, Providence, and
Warwick, R.I. But the supermarket company said it had no reports of
illegal transactions on cards that had been used at those stores.

After being notified by a bank last week that its Coventry and
Cranston stores appeared to be the common link to a number of stolen
card numbers, Quincy-based Stop & Shop has bolted down card readers
at all 385 of its supermarkets in New England, New York, and New
Jersey, company spokesman Robert Keane said yesterday.

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http://www.boston.com/business/globe/articles/2007/02/19/stop__shop_reports_
credit_data_was_stolen/


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