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TJX theft tops 45.6 million card numbers
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2007-03-30

Information from at least 45.6 million credit cards had been stolen by
unknown attackers who had breached the company's computer transaction
processing systems between July 2005 and mid-January 2007, TJX stated in
its annual report filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
(SEC) on Wednesday. It's a number that will only likely grow larger: The
tally of 45.6 million credit-card accounts was calculated from data
records for transactions processed between December 31, 2002 and
November 23, 2003. Data files after November 2003 were deleted in the
"ordinary course of business" but not before the records were likely
stolen, TJX stated in its annual report.

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