Some Fraud Resulting From Hacked TJX Data

(Boston) tjx dissatisfied with the customer information stolen by hackers have been used to create false debit card and credit card shopping, in the United States and overseas, the United States Massachusetts Bankers Association said. Procurement fraud has been made in Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, and overseas in Hong Kong and Sweden, the association said.

Nearly 60 banks have reported that they have contacts, and credit and debit card companies compromise on the cards, the association said. This number is likely to increase, because fewer than half of the associations 205 banks to report to it on the relevant issues.

"We expect that this will continue and fraud is likely to expand," said association spokesman Bruce Spitzer. "This is only the first report, we have already confirmed." The report of the National Association of fraud is the first in the country since last week tjx disclosure violations. Last Tuesday, said Vermont Bankers Association, a bank, it has refused to tell the name of tjx, has more than 1,600 of the banks customers, account numbers compromised.

Framingham base tjx - t operators. J. maxx discount stores and the Marshall Islands, as well as the homegoods and AJ Wright in the United States, Winners and homesense in Canada, and TK maxx in the United Kingdom - not immediately return a call seeking comment Wednesday.

Last week, tjx said that hackers had intruded into a system to deal with credit and debit card transactions, as well as inspection and return of goods customers in the United States and Puerto Rico and may be involved in customer accounts, from the United Kingdom and Ireland.

The company said the stolen customer data, including from the 2003 transactions, as well as information, in May 2006 to December, when the company discovered irregularities. Tjx has refused to disclose the number of users in the end, their personal information stolen or accessed.

(Avivah Litan, data security analyst at garter company said that it may be difficult for the company determine the scope of violations, because the thieves carried out a great deal of time, the sale and dissemination of information, and then Haq was found in the.

"They can not wall around it," she said. "said that what is so disturbing this matter." credit card companies that consumers are not responsible for the fraudulent purchases. Spitzer said, the National Bank to notify clients on fraudulent purchase and re-issue the cards in certain circumstances.

Spitzer said, is still too early to know how many fraudulent procurement, or its cost, but said the cost of re-issuing banks to hundreds of thousands of single-card, will be "huge."