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This week, the clothing retailer Forever 21 disclosed to customers that it was hacked earlier in 2017. While the company has not yet offered many details about the intrusion, we know that it is looking into a portion of credit card transactions between March 2017 and October 2017 that were conducted over machines that appear to have been insecure.
[...] We have reached out to Forever 21 for more information about the unencrypted transactions, where the affected stores were located and the security firm it is working with to investigate the incident. The company has set up a customer portal about the incident that provides a contact number for anyone concerned that their credit card information may have been compromised.
The hack appears to have only impacted certain terminals which were not using encryption or tokenization on card numbers.
Source: https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/15/forever-21-hack/
Also at ZDNet, USAToday, and the WSJ.
(Score: 2) by mendax on Friday November 17 2017, @05:30AM (5 children)
I'm too old to even pretend I'm close to 21 anymore. I definitely feel my age in my bones. So, no, my credit card numbers are not floating around in the aether because of me shopping there.
It's really quite a simple choice: Life, Death, or Los Angeles.
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Friday November 17 2017, @05:33AM (4 children)
Well that store really caters to teenage and 20-something girls, so there's not likely to be anyone on this site who shops there, unless they have a teenage daughter.
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday November 17 2017, @05:55AM (1 child)
There are plenty of cougars who wear that shit. Asian women in tech who never got degrees and went on to become engineers, for example.
Or if you're talking more widespread use of the style, every goddamn woman in L.A.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 17 2017, @02:48PM
You need to get out more...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 17 2017, @07:10AM (1 child)
"Well that store really caters to teenage and 20-something girls"
They actually carry a good deal of men's clothing, and have plenty of female customers who are much older than that.
Their niche is "inexpensive, stylish, durable; we chose the first two." If you prefer to buy something that will last, this is not the place. On the other hand, if you want to buy new clothes regularly, and don't place much value on durability, you might like it.
(Score: 1) by nitehawk214 on Friday November 17 2017, @07:15PM
Funny that a place with "forever" in their name does not make clothes that last.
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