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Posted by Monty Solomon on March 17, 2008, 8:08 pm
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Supermarket data breach affects 4.2 million accounts
March 17, 2008 04:43 PM
The Hannaford Bros. supermarket chain said a breach of its computer
system led to the theft of about 4.2 million credit and debit card
numbers from its Hannaford and Sweetbay stores and other locations.
Hannaford, based in Maine, said about 1,800 cases of fraud have been
tied to the breach, but no personal information -- such as names or
addresses -- was accessed, and it has contained the breach. The
security lapse is the latest to affect a large retailer, and comes
amid tougher scrutiny on the payments industry following a breach
that emerged last year that compromised as many as 100 million card
numbers of customers of Framingham retailer TJX Cos.
Hannaford operates 165 stores in the Northeast. There are 106
Sweetbay supermarkets in Florida. The company said in a statement
posted to its website that the stolen data was "illegally accessed
from our computer systems during transmission of card authorization.''
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http://www.boston.com/business/ticker/2008/03/supermarket_dat.html
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If you'd like to see some real-world solutions to the computer
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