{"id":8663,"date":"2017-12-13T12:42:57","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T17:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.garmento.net\/europes-unibail-rodamco-bids-16-billion-westfield-global-shift-3\/"},"modified":"2018-04-02T12:56:31","modified_gmt":"2018-04-02T16:56:31","slug":"saks-lord-taylor-hit-by-payment-card-data-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.garmento.net\/es\/saks-lord-taylor-hit-by-payment-card-data-breach\/","title":{"rendered":"Saks, Lord &#038; Taylor hit by payment card data breach"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 class=\"h1 fg-article__title\">Saks, Lord &amp; Taylor hit by payment card data breach<\/h1>\n<div class=\"fg-article__meta\"><time class=\"fg-article__date\" datetime=\"2018-04-01T19:29:43-05:00\">April 1, 2018<\/time><\/p>\n<div class=\"actions fg-article__actions\"><button class=\"picto-news-zoom-out fg-article__action\" title=\"Decrease text size\"><i class=\"fa fa-search-minus\"><\/i><\/button>\u00a0<button class=\"picto-news-zoom-in fg-article__action\" title=\"Increase text size\"><i class=\"fa fa-search-plus\"><\/i><\/button>\u00a0<button class=\"picto-print fg-article__action palm--hidden\" title=\"Print\"><i class=\"fa fa-print\"><\/i><\/button>\u00a0<i class=\"fa fa-file-pdf-o\"><\/i><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content line fg-article__content\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: san-francisco-light;\">Retailer Hudson\u2019s Bay Co on Sunday disclosed that it was the victim of a security breach that compromised data on payment cards used at Saks and Lord &amp; Taylor stores in North America.<\/span><br class=\"clear\" \/><\/p>\n<figure class=\"table\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: san-francisco-light;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" href=\"http:\/\/us.media.fashionnetwork.com\/m\/d149\/f3ed\/db16\/aa71\/6ace\/7a6b\/91a8\/bf9d\/fe05\/eb16\/eb16.jpeg\" rel=\"group\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"shadow\" src=\"http:\/\/us.media.fashionnetwork.com\/m\/d149\/f3ed\/db16\/aa71\/6ace\/7a6b\/91a8\/bf9d\/fe05\/eb16\/650x1019.60\/eb16.jpeg\" \/><\/a><\/span><figcaption><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: san-francisco-light;\">Reuters<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: san-francisco-light;\">One <\/span>cyber security<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: san-francisco-light;\"> firm said that it has evidence that millions of cards may have been compromised, which would make the breach one of the largest involving payment cards over the past year, but added that it was too soon to confirm whether that was the case.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: san-francisco-light;\">Toronto-based Hudson\u2019s Bay said in a statement that it had \u201ctaken steps to contain\u201d the breach but did not say it had succeeded in confirming that its network was secure. It also did not say when the breach had begun or how many payment card numbers were taken.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: san-francisco-light;\">\u201cOnce we have more clarity <\/span>around<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: san-francisco-light;\"> the facts, we will notify our customers quickly and will offer those impacted free identity protection services, including credit and web monitoring,\u201d the statement said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: san-francisco-light;\">A company spokeswoman declined to elaborate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: san-francisco-light;\">The breach comes as Hudson\u2019s Bay struggles to improve its financial performance as a tough retail environment has weighed on sales and margins. Last June, it launched a transformation plan to cut costs and is working to <\/span>monetise<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: san-francisco-light;\"> the value of its substantial real estate holdings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: san-francisco-light;\">Hudson\u2019s Bay disclosed the incident after New York-based cyber security firm Gemini Advisory reported on its blog that Saks and Lord &amp; Taylor had been hacked by a well-known criminal group known as JokerStash.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: san-francisco-light;\">JokerStash, which sells stolen data on the criminal underground, on Wednesday said that it planned to release more than 5 million stolen credit cards, according to Gemini Chief Technology Officer Dmitry Chorine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: san-francisco-light;\">The hacking group has so far released about 125,000 payment cards, about 75 percent of which appear to have been taken from the Hudson\u2019s Bay units, Chorine told Reuters by telephone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: san-francisco-light;\">The bulk of the 5 million card numbers that JokerStash said it plans to release are likely from Saks and Lord &amp; Taylor, but it is too early to say for sure, Chorine said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: san-francisco-light;\">\u201cIt\u2019s hard to assess at the moment, primarily because hackers have not released the entire cards in one batch,\u201d he told Reuters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: san-francisco-light;\">Alex Holden, chief information security officer with <\/span>cyber security<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: san-francisco-light;\"> firm Hold Security, confirmed that the 125,000 cards had been released by JokerStash but said it was too soon to estimate how many had been taken from Hudson\u2019s Bay.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: san-francisco-light;\">If in fact millions of records were stolen, the breach would be one of the largest involving payment cards in the past year, but it would still be far smaller than any of the biggest thefts on record, which occurred a decade ago.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: san-francisco-light;\">Hackers stole more than 130 million credit cards from credit-card processor Heartland Payment Systems, convenience store operator 7-Eleven Inc and grocer Hannaford Brothers Co, from 2006 to 2008, according to U.S. federal investigators.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Cyber criminals<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: san-francisco-light;\"> stole some 40 million payment cards in a 2013 hack on Target Corp and 56 million from Home Depot Inc in 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: san-francisco-light;\">Hudson\u2019s Bay said there is no indication its recent breach involved online sales at Saks and Lord &amp; Taylor outlets or its Hudson\u2019s Bay, Home Outfitters and HBC Europe units.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: san-francisco-light;\">The company said that customers will not be liable for fraudulent charges resulting from the breach.<\/span><\/div>\n<p class=\"fg-article__copyrights push-full--top\">courtesy of wwd.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saks, Lord &amp; Taylor hit by payment card data breach April 1, 2018 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Retailer Hudson\u2019s Bay Co on Sunday disclosed that it was the victim of a security breach that compromised data on payment cards used at Saks and Lord &amp; Taylor stores in North America. 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