Fashion Retailer FOREVER 21 confirms Payment Card details stolen in the Security Breach

FOREVER 21 suffered data breach, users at certain stores are affected by the incident. Now FOREVER 21 released some additional information about the payment cards.

The incident reported on November 14, 2017, Forever says Some of the stores are affected when the encryption on those devices are not operational which open the gateway for hackers said FOREVER 21. And we are closely investigating the card transactions between March 2017 – October 2017.

They hired some leading payment gateway firms for assistance and in the investigation, it was identified with some of their store’s encryption on POS devices was not enabled and they found some traces of unidentified network access and malware installation on POS devices.

Forever 21 statement reads ” malware searched only for track data read from a payment card as it was being routed through the POS device. In most instances, the malware only found track data that did not have cardholder name – only card number, expiration date, and internal verification code – but occasionally the cardholder name was found.”

- Advertisement -

Their devices use to keep logs of the payment card transactions that are authorized. In some of their store’s encryption on those devices are not enabled and the payment card details stored as plain text in logs.

“Forever 21 has been working with its payment processors, POS device provider, and third-party experts to address the operation of encryption on the POS devices in all Forever 21 stores. Forever 21 stores outside of the U.S. have different payment processing systems, and our investigation is ongoing to determine if any of these stores are involved. Payment cards used on Forever 21’s website, www.forever21.com, were not affected.”

The Customers are advised to carefully monitor their payment card details for unauthorized transactions and if anything suspicious notify the bank that issued the card immediately.

Some of Very Recent Data Leaked Online

1. Famous Cosmetic Company “Tarte” leaked 2 Million Customers Personal Data Online
2. Fashion Retailer Admits Payment Card Security Breach
3. Accenture Data Leak Exposed 137 Gigabytes of Highly Sensitive Data Online
4.  Deloitte Hacked by Cyber Criminals and Revealed Client & Employee’s Secret Emails
5. Leading research and advisory firms Forrester was hacked
6. Disqus confirms it’s been hacked and more than 17.5 Million Users Details Exposed
7. Gaming Service R6DB Database deleted By Hackers and held for Ransom
8. Biggest Hack Ever – Each and Every Single Yahoo Account Was Hacked in 2013
9. Pizza Hut Hacked – Users Reporting Fraudulent Transactions on their Cards
10. Hyatt Hotels Data Breach Exposed 41 Hotel Customers Payment Card Information
11. Verizon Wireless Confidential DataLeaked Accidentally by Its Employee
12. ABC Company Massive Data Leaked online from Amazon S3 Bucket
13. Pentagon Data Leak Exposed 1.8 Billion of Social Media Surveillance Data
14. Uber Data Breach Exposed Personal Information of 57 Million Uber Users
15. HP Exposed more than 400,000 Customers Sensitive Information Online
16. Imgur Data Breach Exposed 1.7 Million Users Emails and Passwords by Hackers

17. Paypal Acquired firm TIO Networks Data Breach that Impacts 1.6 Million Customers

18. Hackers Stole More than 19 Million Records of California State Voter Database
19. Australian Airport Hacked: Significant Amount of Security Data Stolen by Vietnamese Hacker

20. 123 Million American Households Sensitive Data Leaked Online – A Massive Data Leak