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Data Breach Cost TJX $9.75 million 08/07/2009

Data Breach Cost TJX $9.75 million

And that's just the financial cost!

Chances are, you would have heard about the TJX data breach in 2007 that exposed millions of customers’ personal and credit card data to hackers.

As a result, TJX Cos. Inc. will pay $9.75 million to 41 states for failing to protect customers’ financial information!

I'd imagine they regret not spending a comparatively small amount of money putting an ISO27001 ISMS in place!

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Under the multistate settlement filed in Suffolk Superior Court on the 23rd June 2009, the operator of the T.J. Maxx, Marshalls, HomeGoods and A.J. Wright chains agreed to ensure that it’s safeguarding consumers’ data and addressing security system deficiencies that were in place when the breach occurred to the extent that it already hasn’t done so.

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