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Another northeast credit card issue

Hannaford Brothers Company announced yesterday that they have been the victim of a breach of its computer system potentially exposed 4.2 million credit and debit card numbers and has led to about 1,800 fraud cases to date. Currently the company is working with the Secret Service on this investigation. This comes on the heels of last year's theft of up to 100 million customer card numbers from Framingham retailer TJX Companies. Also last year, four men from Southern California received prison sentences after pleading guilty to US charges they stole payment information at checkout counters at Stop & Shop Supermarket Companies stores in Rhode Island.

Is the northeast this wide open for hackers or is it all just a coincidence? I'm not sure but one thing is for certain, when these guys [or girls] are caught, they are doing some serious time in the big house. Go get 'em boys...

Labels: Business

posted by TheWino @ 10:49 AM