TJX says theft of data may go back to 2005
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TJX Cos. yesterday said computer hackers may have gained access to its consumer data in 2005, a year earlier than it had previously thought, potentially exposing millions more customers of stores such as T.J. Maxx and Marshalls to identity theft.
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A portable hard drive that may contain the personal information of up to 48,000 veterans may have been stolen, the Department of Veterans Affairs and a lawmaker said Friday.
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Here&#39;s a tip: If you steal a printer used to print driver&#39;s licenses, don&#39;t call the manufacturer asking for driver software.It&#39;s a lesson that Timothy Scott Short learned all too well this month, when he got arrested after placing a couple of calls to Digimarc&#39;s tech support line.Short, 33, is facing felony charges for possession of &quot;document-making implements&quot; in connection with the theft of a Digimarc printer used by the state of Missouri to manufacture driver&#39;s licenses.The printer, along with a PC, were stolen on the evening of Oct. 5 from the St. Charles contract office of the Missouri Department of Revenue, said Trish Vincent, director of the department. These offices are run by individuals who are subcontracted by the department to issue driver&#39;s licenses, Vincent said. The pilfered printer could be used to produce a license, Vincent said.The PC, however, was locked with a key, and because the key was stored in a secure location, the PC was unusable to the thief, said Vincent.So what do you do when you have a stolen driver&#39;s license printer, but can&#39;t use the PC that goes with it? Enter Digimarc&#39;s tech support line.According to a sworn statement by Secret Service Special Agent John Bush, someone who identified himself as &quot;Scott&quot; called Digimarc two days later and asked if he could buy printer drivers for the model of printer that had been swiped from the St. Charles office.The Secret Service agent later listened to a recording of this call and recognized Short&#39;s voice from a prior investigation, Bush said. The caller also gave Digimarc the same phone number Short had used in an unrelated identity theft case, Bush said.Short was charged on Oct. 11, and is facing 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine, according to court filings.&quot;The stolen equipment contains the identifying information and photographs of between 200 to 500 Missouri residents,&quot; Bush said in the statement. &quot;The only use of the equipment is the manufacture of state identification documents.&quot;The state has sent notification letters to those affected by the theft, Vincent said. The computer contained name, address, and date of birth data, but not Social Security numbers, she added.Digimarc declined to explain how the Secret Service ended up listening to its customer support calls. &quot;Because of a confidentiality agreement with our customer and because this is a criminal matter, we are not able to comment on the incident,&quot; said Digimarc spokeswoman Leslie Constans.
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The music industry's trying to use the current legal system to get around decisions made by legal systems past, says InfoWorld's Robert X. Cringeley. The upshot? We're all thieves -- yes, you too.
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Blog: Past and current employees are affected by a third-party tape loss.
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The TJX Companies, Inc., a discount retailer, said Friday it settled class action lawsuits in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico stemming from a massive security breach of customer data that affected at least 45 million credit and debit cards.
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Blog: Decision could mean companies may be compelled to turn over RAM data in civil cases. TorrentSpy vows to continue legal fight.
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Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu predicted Wednesday that digital crime and online security threats will skyrocket in 2005 as a result of the rapid growth in portable Internet and mobile technology, and that the technology industry will see a boom in the development of nanotechnology and fuel cell batteries.
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R. James Nicholsonâs term was marked by the theft of a laptop computer that compromised the personal information of tens of millions of people.
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It could be deja vu all over  again for Apple Computer Inc. AAPL.O.
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Technology, media and telecoms chiefs are expected to be cautious about 2005 when they gather in Barcelona this week at Morgan Stanley's annual TMT investor conference.
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TJX Cos. now meets credit card security rules, a company spokeswoman said yesterday, putting the Framingham retailer among a growing number of companies catching up with a Sept. 30 deadline to tighten how they handle consumer information.
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The loss or theft of personal data such as credit card and Social Security numbers soared to unprecedented levels in 2007
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TJX Companies was not complying with nine of the 12 security controls mandated by the payment card industry data security standards when cardholder data was breached, according to court filings.
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It could be deja vu all over again for Apple Computer Inc. .
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Two Canadian privacy agencies are expected to release today the results of a joint investigation into the security breach at TJX Cos. in which hackers stole more than 45.7 million credit and debit card numbers.
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The breach at TJX Companies occurred almost a full-year earlier than first thought -- and compromised more payment card data than previously believed, the company said.