TK Maxx owner criticised after security breach
News The parent company of TK Maxx, the high-street retailer, was breaking financial standards when its customers' credit card details were stolen just before Christmas, it has been claimed. TK Maxx had not responded to requests for comment at the time...
[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. TK Maxx has not specified how it was done," said Litchfield.
[March 30, 2007, 16:45]
TK Maxx owner: 45.7m accounts were compromised
News TJX, which operates such discount retail chains as the UK's TK Maxx and TJ Maxx and Marshalls in the US, released additional details of the breach in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
[March 30, 2007, 15:19]
TK Maxx customers hit by hacking scare
News Customers' credit card details have been stolen from the company that owns the popular TK Maxx cut-price retail chain. The company is concerned that the intrusion may extend to the computer systems that process and store information related to...
[January 18, 2007, 11:31]
Wi-Fi hack caused TK Maxx security breach
News Hackers who stole 45 million customer records from the parent company of TK Maxx did so by breaking into the retail company's wireless LAN , it emerged on Monday. TK Maxx's parent company, TJX, had secured its wireless network using Wired...
[May 8, 2007, 16:13]
TJX offers £20m settlement over breach
News The parent company of TK Maxx in the UK has offered to settle with banks for $40.9m (£19.8m) over the world's largest commercial security breach. Credit-card transactions at TJX's Winners and HomeSense stores in Canada, as well as credit and debit...
[December 3, 2007, 14:22]
Security Blundered Brits: Could We Learn From the US?
White Papers Never a day goes by when one doesn't hear about another security blunder with highly confidential information being lost not only by Government departments but also by other large corporations including the DVA, DVLA, HMRC, the Leeds Building...
[February 12, 2009, 23:00]
Meru shields wireless networks from eavesdroppers
News Meru Networks has announced a system aimed at preventing 'parking lot' attacks of the kind that have affected TK Maxx and others. During 2005 and 2006, the use of WEP was one of the key factors allowing attackers to break into TJ Maxx's network and...
[July 29, 2008, 13:31]
Three indicted in largest-ever US hacking prosecution
News The indictment names 28-year-old Albert Gonzalez of Miami, who has already been charged with stealing data related to 40 million credit cards from eight major retailers, including TJ Maxx (known in the UK as TK Maxx), and two unnamed co...
[August 18, 2009, 9:17]
Alleged TJX data trafficker arrested
Blog TJX, the parent company of clothing retailer TK Maxx in the UK and Marshalls in the US, reportedly used WEP encryption to transmit sensitive customer details around one of its Minnesota stores. A Ukrainian man has been arrested outside a Turkish...
[August 23, 2007, 17:17]
Alleged TJX hacker pleads guilty
News TJX Companies, the parent company of the UK's TK Maxx and Marshall's in the US, said in March 2007 that 45.7 million accounts were compromised over nearly a two-year period. One of the hackers accused of involvement in the massive data breach...
[September 15, 2008, 11:26]
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]
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 TJX Companies, which owns businesses including TK Maxx in the UK, admitted in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing in March 2007 that 45.7 million payment-card details had been stolen by unknown intruders, including details belonging to UK...
[August 6, 2008, 13:34]
Privacy experts: TJX breach was 'foreseeable'
News Details of 45 million customers of the TJX group, which includes TK Maxx in the UK and other stores in Ireland, the US and Canada, had been put at risk. The risk of a breach of sensitive personal information held by retail giant TJX earlier this...
[September 26, 2007, 14:12]
Link correction to tjmaxx
Talkback http://searchdns.netcraft.com/? host=tjmaxx.com%2F&position=limited
[April 2, 2007, 19:38]
TJ Maxx hack
Talkback Does anyone woder how they were hacked, or why it was so easy? Check ot their OS.http://toolbar.netcraft.com/netblockq=TJXCOS,168.233.0.0,168.233.255.255
[April 2, 2007, 19:34]
Issues like this
Talkback will happen over and over again until immediate realistic liability by law is introduced and enforced throughout the entire chain involved. Bad security is mostly never a single entity fault. Usually a whole chain is involved with plenty of room...
[May 12, 2007, 23:08]
Security is moving beyond the perimeter
Blog TK Maxx last year, HMRC last month and HSBC last week). I was reading some of the early results from our 2008 (ISC)2 Global Information Security Workforce Study recently and was quite interested to see that more companies are deploying cryptography...
[April 17, 2008, 14:48]
