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Kmart suffers huge breach, all shoppers since September likely victims
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Sears-owned retailer Kmart has declared that it has suffered a massive data breach. The company said late Friday that a malware attack that began harvesting data from it its point-of-sale computer systems in early September was "new form of malware" and "similar to a computer virus." Few details have been released by Kmart, but the company warns that it could include every shopper between September 1 and Thursday, October 9. Online shoppers were not impacted by the breach.
Data suspected to have been taken are credit card numbers, expiration dates, and customer names. Not compromised are shopper PIN codes, email addresses, or Social Security information. Kmart is offering free credit monitoring protection to shoppers who purchased an item in the entire range of company stores in the affected period.
It is unknown what relation the breach had with either this week's Dairy Queen theft, or previous assaults on retailer Target. Kmart claims to be working closely with federal law enforcement and its banking partners to determine the perpetrators of the attack.
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Will the Apple Pay system prevent such credit card data from being compromised?
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It should. The purchase tokens generated can only be used once, so any purloined data is beyond useless.
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How can any of these retailers not have a team actively looking for this stuff on a day by day, moment by moment basis when this has happened so many times now. It's shameful.
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Clearly there is little incentive for retailers to improve security. This is just a cost of doing business and not a big cost, ergo no Apple Pay.
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The good news is these hacks have forced all businesses to set themselves up to accept credit cards with chips. The sad part is it took so long to finally catch up with Europe.
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The saddest part is that this isn't even going to be the last company to report this having happened, but it could have been, had these companies done an audit when information about this threat was first realized.
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Who next... Amazon? Given the hassles these breaches can create, it's making more and more sense to shop at small businesses and pay cash.
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Glad to see hackers are going after the super rich that shop at K-Mart.
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K-Mart...since September...so then 5 people need to be notified.
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