TJX- SECURITY BREACH MGSC 6201-02 INDUSTRY/COMPANY CONTEXT: TJX Companies‚ based in Framingham‚ MA‚ was a major participant in the discount fashion and retail industry. The TJX brand had presence in the United States as well as in Canada and Europe. In mid-2005‚ investigators were made aware of serious security breaches experienced in TJX’s credit card system. These breaches were first found at a Marshall’s located in St Paul‚ MN in which the hackers implemented a “war driving” tactic to steal
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Security Breaches On December 19th Target revealed that 40 million credit and debit card accounts were compromised by a data breach. The information had appeared to be stole around black friday of 2013. This is the busiest shopping day of the year.The retailer said that the information stolen between November 27 and December 15‚ 2013 included personal information of as many as 70 million people more than the 40 million the company originally estimated. Target discovered the breach on December 13th
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information. For many people‚ this is considered a breach of security. According to wisegeek.com‚ a security breach is “an incursion into a computer or network of computers‚ usually by hackers or malicious software that compromises sensitive data or causes damage to computers or network function.”1 Most of the time these so-called “computer hackers” find ways to evade security systems to steal important personal information such as social security numbers‚ home addresses and banking information. These
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iPad’s Security Breach Meredith Morrison Strayer University BUS 508 [ November 26‚ 2012 ] Dr. Ronald Steffel The Goatse Security firm’s possible objectives when they hacked into AT&T’s Website was to test for security. If they could hack into the system‚ so can any other hacker (iPad Security Breach‚ 2010). The Goatse Security firm wanted to confirm that if they could gather e-mail addresses‚ discovering vulnerability‚ so can people who are hackers. “We’ve reached out to the
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A National Security Breach Citi mortgage‚ a subsidiary of Citi Bank has issued a national PR release. Citi Mortgage of Fenton‚ Missouri‚ has publicly notified the public as of May 20‚ 2006 several hundred mortgage applications filed by previous Citi Mortgage customers have been lost by The United Parcel Service package company of Earth City‚ Missouri. Citi mortgage member’s social security numbers‚ salary information‚ bank account identification numbers and the home address of clients and their
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Communications of the Association for Information Systems Volume 23 | Number 1 Article 31 11-1-2008 Security Breach: The Case of TJX Companies‚ Inc. William Xu Carleton University‚ wxu3@connect.carleton.ca Gerald Grant Carleton University Hai Nguyen Carleton University Xianyi Dai Carleton University Recommended Citation Xu‚ William; Grant‚ Gerald; Nguyen‚ Hai; and Dai‚ Xianyi (2008) "Security Breach: The Case of TJX Companies‚ Inc.‚" Communications of the Association for Information Systems: Vol. 23‚ Article
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at any place and any time when talking about computer security incidents. Not everything goes perfectly fine when a computer system is involved. It could be something as simple as a bad cable or it could be as horrible as a hacker trying to steal all of your information. Either way‚ it probably isn’t going to end well. Additionally‚ the FBI and the Computer Security Institute‚ in their annual survey on computer crime and information security‚ gathered the following disturbing facts in 1998: 1)
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Security Breach Plan Bridget Baca HCS/533 January 28‚ 2012 Chong Daleiden Security Breach Plan Patient privacy and security is one of the most important aspects of the St. Johns Hospital code of conduct‚ they take pride in the sound policies and procedures set to maintain customer confidentiality. Each employee is held to a high standard of maintaining the highest level of privacy and confidentiality when it comes to patient health information (PHI). This paper will outline the plan that
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INDIVIDUAL CASE ANALYSIS Home Depot Security Breach Prepared By ADAEZE ‘DAISY’ OCHIEZE PRESENTED TO Dr. C. Harben MBA 6090 Strategy Design and Implementation FALL 2014 Contents Introduction 3 Decision Makers 4 Problem Statement 4 Identify Alternatives 4 Analysis of Alternatives 5 Alternative One 5 Alternative Two 6 Alternative Three 7 Alternative Four 7 Alternative Five 8 Recommendation 9 Implementation 9 Evaluation 10 Generalization 11 References 12 Introduction Founded
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TJX corporate systems had poor security controls. The computer kiosks that were located in some of their stores were supposed to be secure. They also had some firewall protection. TJX wireless network was protected by WEP encryption system. The computer kiosks were poorly secured; the kiosks were accessible from the back which made them vulnerable to tampering. The computer firewalls set up did not block malicious traffic coming from the kiosks. The wireless network used an old encryption
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