Credit Card Breach at Kmart Stores. Again.
Summary: Kmart Stores suffered a malware-based breach of its point-of-sale systems for the second time in under three years, with parent company Sears Holdings confirming that malicious code undetectable by current antivirus and application controls infected payment systems at some of its 735 locations. Sears said no personal identifying information was taken but certain credit card numbers were compromised, and it declined to say how many stores were affected or how long the breach persisted.
Key Takeaway: The malware copied data from card magnetic stripes, letting thieves clone cards and buy high-priced merchandise, and with only 58 percent of Visa cards chip-enabled as of March 2017, customers still swiping at Kmart remained the exposed population.
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