Kmart latest victim of data theft

[theHandpuppet]

Source: The Belfast Telegraph (NI)

11 October 2014

A data breach at Kmart stores may have compromised some customers' credit and debit cards, parent company Sears Holdings has said.

The data theft at Kmart that started last month is the latest in a string of hacking attacks on big US retailers including Target, Supervalu and Home Depot.

Sears, which also operates Sears stores, said Kmart's information technology department detected a breach of its payment data systems on Thursday.

The company was unable to provide the number of affected cards but said that based on its investigation so far, it believes no personal information, debit card PIN numbers, email addresses or social security numbers were obtained by the hackers. There was also no evidence that Kmart.com shoppers were affected, it said....


Read more: http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/kmart-latest-victim-of-data-theft-30655490.html

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If you shopped at K-Mart at any time from September until Thursday, check your records to make sure their are no unauthorized charges on your credit or debit card.

[SoapBox]

1. Well...what the fuck!

So our dumbass politicians in D.C., had their jock straps all in a knot over blacked out NFL games, huffing and puffing, to "do something".

But, with millions and millions of Americans, under threat of having to deal with bogus CC charges, changing CC numbers, auto pays, etc., etc., etc....and, don't forget the threat of outright Identity Theft...what are those stupid worthless fucks doing to keep us safe?

Benghazi...no SS Marriage...oh ya, get blacked out football on TV...in other words, NADA.

Worthless.

[gvstn]

6. +1

[Journeyman]

2. It's not a "breach" if the data is just being taken from everywhere we use our cards . . .

A "breach" implies a minimal effort by corporate entities to protect our financial data.

"Hackers" implies there's a necessary level of skill required to access the information.

But when our personal information and financial data is just whisked away, willy-nilly, from whomever happens to hold it at any given moment, there's no "breach" and there's no "hack" -- the information is just being simply downloaded from unsecured servers who's function appears to be merely to hold our info until the first interested party pings the connection.

Our data may as well be stored in decomposing peach baskets stacked outside the back door by the dumpster, for all the security afforded it by corporate America.

How many tens of millions is it now who have had their data compromised in just the past few months?

Target, Home Depot, Adobe, Healthcare.gov, J.P. Morgan, UPS, Cedars-Sinai, Albertsons, Anderson & Murison, CVS, Rite Aid, Bank of America.

Oh, hell -- that's just a portion of the first page on the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse website. There are 50 breaches per page there, and some 90 page in the database. 4,409 breaches -- a minimum of 929,674,710 records compromised. And those are only the data breaches made public!

It's not a "breach" and it's not a "hack" when there's no evidence of security in place in the least.

[gvstn]

5. +1

[madville]

3. I didn't know Kmart was still around

Last time I saw one in business was about 2003 and I probably paid with cash

[gvstn]

4. This is getting ridiculous.

Please remember that we pay at least 30¢ for EVERY debit transaction ( the store actually pays this fee but when we pay $1.19 for a candy bar we are paying the fee). And when using credit cards the fee is higher than that at about 2.5% of the transaction (I'm not sure about a minimum transaction fee on credit cards).

They really should secure our data. And now they are trying to make paying in large amounts of cash worthy of calling the cops. I used to keep all card transactions at $50 minimum but have eventually acquiesced to just using "my card" for everything. If we ALL started paying cash again maybe we could stop the "gravy train" and get these banks to figure out the proper security needed for their profit system. All those 30¢ add up and without those profits they would come crawling to us begging for forgiveness instead of asking us to deal with identity theft costs.

[shenmue]

7. I bought sneakers there a few weeks ago