Hannaford joins the oopsie-we-lost-your-data club
By adamg - Mon, 03/17/2008 - 12:41pm.
UPDATE: It's Hannaford; see the comments below.
Channel 4 reports the Massachusetts Bankers Association says Yet Another New England Retailer has managed to lose debit and credit-card data, but is refusing to say which one. The bankers say the data was stolen between Dec. 7 to March 10. That's nice. So go check all your credit-card and bank statements for the past couple of months for suspicious transactions.
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We should all just go back
We should all just go back to paying cash or writing checks. I've been writing much more checks since my debit card info was hacked last year.
So - can we band together to figure it out?
(or would that be illegal or anything?)
Analyzing $significantOther's and my credit card statements for the noted period, and knowing that my card number has been automatically changed by MasterCard (wish they told me!) and $significantOther's card has not, and applying a filter of "New England Companies", between the two my guess is:
- The breach did *not* seem to occur in: CVS, Star, WholeFoods.
- The breach may have occurred in: Stop & Shop, Shaws (yes, different markets charge under different accounts), Donelans, Panera, EMS, good ol'Dunkin Donuts, or the always pleasant and efficient MA Registry of Motor Vehicles.
Anyone else wanna reveal their spending habits publicly?
It's Hannaford
I work in retail and all day we were looking at each other saying, "It's not us, right?" Word came down that it's Hannaford. Not us - phew! But I shop there - crap!
Mystery Solved!
We wondered why our credit union sent a new card for my husband out of the blue. They only said that the old one had been "compromised".
My husband works near a Hannaford and he has been shopping there.
From Hannaford
hannaford.com.../News_Events/News/News.shtml
"no personal info?"
Hannaford has contained a data intrusion into its computer network that resulted in the theft of customer credit and debit card numbers. No personal information, such as names or addresses, was accessed. Hannaford doesn’t collect, know or keep any personally identifiable customer information from transactions.
Well PHEW, that's a relief. I'm glad they got my credit card number, and not my name! If they had gotten my name, they'd have my soul.
odd
Doesn't anyone think it's odd that just this morning the news outlets were saying that the name of said thrashed companies could not be revealed due to an ongoing investigation, then a few hours later, poof! Did the investigation end that quickly? :-)
In this day and age, I think
In this day and age, I think we should be checking our credit card and banks statements for suspicious transactions no matter what. Unfortunately, it seems identify theft and the like are just facts of modern life.
Doesn't everyone check their statements?
Even in the absence of fraud, errors and double-charges occasionally happen. I'd like to make sure that a charge for $67.82 wasn't put through for $6,782 or $76.82 by mistake.