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• Data Breach was said to have started in July 2005
• Detection in mid-December 2006
• Within the next year of detection approx. 90 million credit card and debit card were reissued to customers with known fraudulent charges.
a. Intrusion Detection system
a.Physical access
b. Operating system security
a.Up to date anti-virus software
• Because of the TJX Data Breach, The Payment Card Industry Security Standard Council released guidelines for securing company wireless network
• TJX has upgrade their weak and outdated encryption standard to keep it beyond regular standards.
• 11 Total Hackers
• Albert Gonzalez, Mastermind behind the data breach is now serving two concurrent 20-year stints in federal prison for both TJX data breach and Heartland Payment Systems.
• Gonzalez started working for the U.S Secret Services ($75 annually) as an informant, while at the same time he was conducting the TJX data breach.
• Gonzalez was indicted in 2009 and charged in March 2010
• As of 2010, Gonzalez sentence is said to be the longest imprisonment given to an American for computer crimes.
• Gonzalez asked judge to reduce sentence because he had a computer addiction and he suffered from Asperger’s disease
• March 2011 filed motion to withdraw guilty plea because he claimed that during that time he was assisting US Secret Services.
This cybercrime was interesting because it affected a large
amount customers at a more personal level.
Not only was TJX Companies affected, a large amount of
daily customers and multiple banks around the US.
• His partner in the Ukraine, Yastremski, was captured and investigators found records of 600 instant message conversations with Albert Gonzalez about stolen card numbers for sale.
• Hackers left encrypted messages on the
company systems to communicate with
each other
• Company Noticed Electronic footprints
were left behind from the system
break-ins that were usually occurring
during peak sales hours to collect the most
account data
• Early estimates around 20 million in damages, by march 20 turned to 45 and by the end of the year the count was up to 171 million.
• Banks had to re-issue about 95 million debit and credit cards to their costumers.
• More than just bank information stolen, also SSN and drivers license numbers.
• January 17,2007 TJX announced that it had been a victim of an unauthorized computer system intrusion.
• TJX first found out about the attack in mid December 2006, but was advised by lawyers and law enforcement to not make a public statement immediately.
• A group of 11 hackers stole credit card and other personal customer information from the database at many TJX retail stores.
• Hacked through the wireless network in retail parking lots of TJX stores