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TJX Earnings Suggest that Data Security Doesn’t Worry Consumers

Ben Worthen writes in The Wall Street Journal:

TJX today reported increased sales for its fiscal 2009 first quarter, a sign that the public just doesn’t care about data breaches.

In January 2007, TJX revealed that its computer systems had been accessed by hackers and the credit- and debit-card numbers belonging to tens of millions of customers had been stolen. Over the course of the year, the number of stolen account numbers swelled to more than 90 million and the company became known in security circles as the iconic example of a data breach.

posted by Fergie @ 5/14/2008 02:11:00 PM