Retail Stores and Wireless Security – Recommendations
On May 4, 2007, The Wall Street Journal reported a Marshall’s store in St. Paul, Minnesota—with a wireless vulnerability—was the entry point for hackers who ultimately gained access to at least 45.7 million payment card records from both Marshall’s and other stores in the TJX organization.
This is the most recently publicized incident involving retailers and wireless attacks. At least three other large-scale attacks have been reported in the press and undoubtedly there are more that have not made headlines. As reported in the WSL article, the law enforcement community believes that organized crime syndicates from Eastern Europe may be responsible for the TJX attack and several others.
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