Uh-Oh - Staples Hacked

[cocobird]

Just read Staples has customer information exposed on 1.2 million credit cards from 115 stores between July and September 2014.

ABC news: http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/staples-customer-data-exposed-security-breach-27726308

 

[f0xx]

http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/StaplesStoreList.pdf

PDF of the stores affected.

 

[PurpleSquirrel]

How cool ! 3 of the stores I visit in CA are in the affected list.

 

[El Ingeniero]

Nothing in Minnesota. Drat, my free 1 year credit monitoring from Target is about to expire.

 

[f0xx]

http://slickdeals.net/f/7533296-one-year-free-credit-monitoring-protection-for-staple-customers-with-protectmyid-elite?p=73061760&utm_source=dealalerts&utm_medium=em-i&utm_term=160&utm_content=u2130784&utm_campaign=tu-9999#post73061760

1YR free credit monitoring via Experian.

 

[RamboAroundTheWorld]

http://slickdeals.net/f/7533296-one-year-free-credit-monitoring-protection-for-staple-customers-with-protectmyid-elite?p=73061760&utm_source=dealalerts&utm_medium=em-i&utm_term=160&utm_content=u2130784&utm_campaign=tu-9999#post73061760

1YR free credit monitoring via Experian.

Same as the "monitoring" from the Target breach. Its effectively worthless.