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TK Maxx customers urged to check card statements
News Shoppers who have used their credit and debit cards in high street retailer TK Maxx are being urged to review their statements after it was revealed hackers may have stolen details of 45 million payment cards from the retailer's US parent company. [30 Mar 2007]
'Wi-fi thieves carried out TK Maxx data heist'
News Hackers who stole 45 million customer records from the parent company of TK Maxx did so by breaking into the retail company's wireless LAN , it has emerged. TK Maxx's parent company, TJX, had secured its wireless network using WEP (wired equivalent... [09 May 2007]
Maxx installs countrywide UPS system
News Retail giant, TK Maxx, has installed a UPS (Uninterruptable Power Supply) system from security specialist, PK Electronics, to protect its UK wide area network. TK Maxx chose a three module UPS system - two to support the load and one to provide... [01 Sep 1999]
Revealed: World's largest security breach
News TJX, which operates discount retail chains including TK Maxx in the UK and Marshalls and TJ Maxx in the US, released additional details of the breach in a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. [30 Mar 2007]
UK at risk from repeat of US hack attack?
News They are accused of stealing more than 40 million credit and debit card numbers before selling the information, with one of the victims TJX Corporation, owner of clothing retailer TK Maxx, being targeted by hackers who broke the WEP encryption on... [06 Aug 2008]
UK consumers demand data breach disclosure
News The survey comes in the wake of the world's largest data loss incident, which saw customers of TJX retail group - which owns the TK Maxx chain - warned to check their credit card statements to spot any unauthorised transactions. [17 Apr 2007]
TJX data heist was "inevitable", says report
News Details of 45 million customers of the TJX group, which includes TK Maxx in the UK and other stores in Canada, Ireland and the US had been put at risk. The risk of a breach of sensitive personal information held by retail giant TJX earlier this... [27 Sep 2007]
ID tech tightens up compliance
Comment No one wants to be the next TK Maxx, whose parent company TJX had more than 45 million customer records stolen by hackers. Organisations are using identity management systems to cut the risk of data security breaches. [18 Mar 2008]
Legal Eye: Is encryption really the silver bullet?
Comment Of course the loss of data happens in business too - such as the loss by TK Maxx of 45 million customer credit files. High-profile data breaches and new laws have put encryption back in the limelight. [27 Mar 2008]
Malice, misuse, mistake - security dangers pile up
Comment The massive breach that retailer TK Maxx suffered was a good example. Putting a ring of steel around corporate data is only part of the answer. The real security threats may actually lie uncomfortably close to home, argues Stewart Baines. [10 Mar 2008]
