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Attorney: TJX Knew Of Data Breach Much Earlier Than It Claims

Evan Schuman writes on Storefront Backtalk:

TJX learned of its massive data breach on Oct 3, 2006, more than two months earlier than TJX has told the government it first learned of the breach, according to one of the attorneys representing one of the banks suing the retail chain.

Getting to the bottom of these he said/she said exchanges—which is necessary to put these pieces of information into meaningful context—is made difficult because so much of the supporting material being referenced is still classified as confidential in the lawsuits surrounding the worst data breach in credit card history.

This allows representatives of both sides to make cryptic (and very carefully worded) comments that sometimes suggest more than the facts support.

Here's the latest parsing of words. Plaintiff attorney Joe Whatley this week told U.S. District Court Judge William Young in open court that TJX knew of the incident much earlier than it had disclosed.

posted by Fergie @ 12/14/2007 12:18:00 AM