2023-09-01 00:36:20
After the American fashion outlet announced that it had suffered a data breach in some of its stores, the clothing company Forever 21 advises consumers to carefully monitor their credit card bills. The advice comes after Forever 21 warned that some of its stores had been affected.
Forever 21 revealed, in a brief statement posted on the company’s website, that it had obtained information from a third party indicating that the company’s security may have been breached. There are around 500 physical Forever 21 sites, plus an online store. After a large-scale theft of data from Credit cards on its point-of-sale equipment in 2017, this is the second data breach in recent years for the company.
Upon further examination, it was discovered that despite the company having implemented encryption and enhanced security measures in 2015 in response to a series of attacks against other stores, “certain point-of-sale devices in some Forever 21 stores were affected” due to encryption. “was not working.”
According to the company, it is currently in the process of collecting evidence and it is too early to disclose any other information at this time, including which specific locations may have been compromised and the length of time consumers may have been at risk. . In 2008, the United States Department of Justice brought charges against a group of individuals responsible for stealing the credit card information of hundreds of millions of customers at big box stores like TJ Maxx, Barnes & Noble, Boston Market, and Forever. twenty-one. .
Forever 21 alerted 539,207 people, according to the notification, that the data breach included their name, date of birth, bank account number and Social Security number, as well as information about the workers’ Forever21 health plan, including enrollment. and premiums paid.
Forever 21 did not provide further details about the problem beyond the fact that one of its computer systems had been compromised, but the company did say that “Forever 21 has taken steps to help ensure that the unauthorized third party no longer has access to the data.” It’s not entirely obvious how Forever 21 came to declare that they have security. Due to the unclear wording of the notice, it is possible to infer that the corporation paid the hacker in exchange for deleting the data.
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