Well this may have seemed inevitable, but the uneasy truce between retail vendors and merchant banks (credit card providers) has broken. Banks are gearing up a massive class action suit against TJX, the parent company of TJ Maxx, which recently revealed the shocking extent of the break-in which resulted in the theft of 45 million credit card numbers and other data from their network. Forty million credit card numbers were stolen over a period of two years or more by crackers who had extensive access to systems handling sensitive data throughout that time. Investigations of consumer fraud revealed a pattern of exposure at TJ Maxx stores, leading in turn to discovery of the break-in. Banks Hit TJ Maxx Owner With Class-Action Law Suit This is an interesting decision on the part of the banks, as the financial industry may one day find themselves on the receiving end of similar class action law suits brought about by other banks or consumer groups when data theft can be traced back to t...
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