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TJX offers £20m settlement over breach
News The settlement agreement, which needs to be accepted by 80 percent of Visa issuers to become effective, would guarantee up to a maximum of $40.9m (£20m)pre-tax in "alternative recovery payments", TJX said in a statement.
[December 3, 2007, 14:22]
Privacy experts: TJX breach was 'foreseeable'
News The risk of a breach of sensitive personal information held by retail giant TJX earlier this year was foreseeable, but the company failed to put in place adequate security safeguards, an investigation by privacy authorities in Canada has concluded.
[September 26, 2007, 14:12]
Alleged mastermind behind TJX hack pleads guilty
News Among the retailers hacked were TJX Companies (owner of T.J. Albert Gonzalez, the alleged ringleader of the largest identity theft in US history, has agreed to plead guilty to all 19 counts of related charges against him, according to court...
[September 1, 2009, 14:56]
Banks claim TJX breach twice as bad
Blog A group of banks have alleged that TJX may have lost 96 million credit card details, over twice the 46 million admitted by TJX. An article in the Boston Globe says the group of banks is sueing TJX over the alleged costs of the breach.
[October 25, 2007, 12:08]
Alleged TJX data trafficker arrested
Blog A Ukrainian man has been arrested outside a Turkish nightclub for allegedly trying to flog credit card details online, lifted from the victims of the TJX hack, reports the Associated Press. The arrest follows the Florida arrests of 10 people...
[August 23, 2007, 17:17]
Second alleged hacker pleads guilty in TJX case
News A second hacker accused of involvement in the massive data breach at TJ Maxx's parent company, TJX, pleaded guilty on Monday, according to reports. In March 2007, TJX said 45.7 million accounts were compromised over nearly a two-year period.
[September 24, 2008, 11:49]
Alleged TJX hacker pleads guilty
News One of the hackers accused of involvement in the massive data breach targeted at major retailer TJX — arguably the largest security breach worldwide — reportedly pleaded guilty on Thursday. TJX Companies, the parent company of the UK's TK Maxx and...
[September 15, 2008, 11:26]
UK's lax wireless security threatens TJX-style hack
News The defendants are accused of stealing more than 40 million credit- and debit-card numbers before selling the information, with one of the corporate victims — TJX, owner of clothing retailer TK Maxx — being targeted by hackers who broke the WEP...
[August 7, 2008, 8:22]
Alleged TJX hackers charged
News Eleven people have been charged with hacking major US retailers, including TJX. The newspaper also reported that TJX had used the Wireless Encryption Protocol (WEP) to encrypt transaction information.
[August 6, 2008, 13:34]
PCI DSS and the Wireless Connection: Pay Attention - TJX Was No Accident!
White Papers There's a New Sherriff in Town and He's Getting Tough on Wireless Security. His name is the PCI DSS 1.2 and wireless security has finally been recognized as an important component of protecting the network and the WLAN.
[October 1, 2009, 1:24]
TK Maxx owner: 45.7m accounts were compromised
News TJX Companies said 45.7 million accounts were compromised over nearly a two-year period, in an update on Wednesday of an investigation into a data breach of customer records. TJX, which operates such discount retail chains as the UK's TK Maxx and...
[March 30, 2007, 15:19]
The Importance of Data Security
White Papers The recent TJX data breach serves as an important reminder of how critical strong information security is within an organization. In late January, TJX Companies officials disclosed that an attacker exploited a flaw in a portion of TJX's computer...
[March 14, 2009, 0:18]
Wi-Fi hack caused TK Maxx security breach
News TK Maxx's parent company, TJX, had secured its wireless network using Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) — one of the weakest forms of security for wireless LANs. With that information, the hackers set up their own accounts on TJX's system.
[May 8, 2007, 16:13]
TK Maxx customers hit by hacking scare
News The details were stolen by a hacker who broke into the systems of parent company TJX. TJX posted a statement from chairman Ben Cammarata on its website on Wednesday. In mid-December, the hacker broke in to TJX's storage network which contains...
[January 18, 2007, 11:31]
Three indicted in largest-ever US hacking prosecution
News Gonzalez, who is in federal custody, was charged in May 2008 in New York with hacking the computer network of Dave & Buster's restaurant chain and was named in an indictment in Massachusetts in August 2008 related to the TJX breach.
[August 18, 2009, 9:17]
TK Maxx owner criticised after security breach
News According to a Visa email alert sent to financial institutions, parent company TJX was storing credit card information in violation of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard, a framework aimed at preventing credit card fraud, which is...
[January 30, 2007, 13:32]
TK Maxx 'should disclose hacking details'
News US discount retailer TJX, owner of UK retailer TK Maxx, revealed in a regulatory filing on Wednesday that at least 45.7 million payment card details had been stolen by hackers. The hack was first detected in December 2006, but the filing revealed...
[March 30, 2007, 16:45]
Building security to the Maxx
Blog In case you missed it, the cut-price clothes chain's parent company, TJX, has yielded to a hacker, who has run off with its customers' credit card numbers. To its credit TJX moved quickly to bring in the security experts to shore up its defences.
[January 18, 2007, 18:04]
Hacker pleads guilty to ID thefts worth millions
News Albert Gonzalez, a former federal government informant and the alleged ringleader of one of the largest known identity theft cases in US history, pleaded guilty (as expected) to 19 counts of conspiracy, computer fraud, wire fraud, access device...
[September 14, 2009, 9:25]
'Information Security Awareness Forum' is launched
News These included the HMRC breach, where 25 million personal details were lost, and the TJX breach, where up to 96 million credit-card details were compromised. An organisation has been launched to promote security awareness in the wake of the...
[February 12, 2008, 16:40]
