[pchelpers] News:TJX Intruder Had Retailer's Encryption Key

March 29, 2007
By Evan Schuman, Ziff Davis Internet

The massive data breach at $16 billion retailer TJX involved someone
apparently armed with the chain's encryption key, but it might not have
been needed as the cyber-thief was accessing data during the
card-approval process before it was encrypted. 

These are among the latest details in what is almost certainly the worst
retail data breach ever.


More here:
http://www.baselinemag.com/article2/0,1540,2109374,00.asp
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