TK hacked to the max
March 30, 2007 by admin
Filed under News, News-Credit-Cards
Millions of customers who shop at TK Maxx may potentially have been the victim of credit card fraud.
The store’s owner, US firm TJX, has revealed that a total of 45.7 million customers’ bank details have been stolen.
Information was taken from the computer systems in Watford, Hertfordshire and Massachusetts and the scam is being labelled the biggest case of card fraud ever.
A statement released by TJX said: “We suspect that customer data for payment card transactions at TK Maxx stores in the UK and Ireland has been stolen.”
“We suspect that these files contained payment card transaction data, some or all of which could have been unencrypted and unmasked.”
TJX has come in for criticism over the way it has handled the situation which it discovered in January.
At the time, the firm said the security breach had affected “substantially less than millions” of customers but today (March 30th) the true scale of the problem has been revealed.
Customers in the UK and Ireland are being told to look closely at bank and card statements to ensure that have not been targeted.
