Tornado Alley (PROG)

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Non disclosure would be par for the course based on the first update .. the bottom bit without links ..

ne of the biggest incidents to hit the industry took place in 2007, when thieves stole card numbers and personal data on up to 90 million cards belonging to people who had shopped at stores owned by TJX TJX +0.08% Cos., parent of T.J. Maxx, HomeGoods and other discount chains.

In July, federal prosecutors unsealed criminal charges in an ongoing investigation of a group of people believed to have stolen more than 160 million credit and debit card numbers from companies including J.C. Penney Co. JCP -3.63% , 7-Eleven, Nasdaq OMX Group, NDAQ -0.34% JetBlue Inc. JBLU -0.94% and others over several years. Dow Jones Inc., a unit of News Corp. NWSA -0.80% and publisher of The Wall Street Journal, was among the companies affected.

Penney, 7-Eleven, and JetBlue didn't respond to requests for comment. Dow Jones and Nasdaq declined to comment. Dow Jones and Nasdaq declined to comment.

Target reported $1.6 billion in profit on $51 billion in sales in the nine months ended Nov. 2.

One of the most recent big breaches occurred last year at Global Payments Inc., an Atlanta-based company that processes card transactions on behalf of merchants and banks. In that case, the company disclosed that thieves were believed to have stolen data from up to 1.5 million card accounts.

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304773104579266743230242538

.. the one you relied to .. http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=95114032

.. looks like Global Payments Inc. deserves some kudos .. yep, Peg, it's business ..
ugh, in those fraud cases and for too much much of the modern business psychology ..