Montgomery Ward Kept Customers in the Dark on Data Theft
June 29th, 2008 by Agent Smith Data Leakage, Data Loss, Data Theft, IT security, In the News, Laws & Standards, online fraud, security breach
In a security breach not yet reported to its customers, Montgomery Ward, an old-line merchant now operating as an internet retailer had 51,000 credit card numbers stolen. The private records have been stolen in December from an online database containing credit card account information.
According to SC Magazine, the furniture retailer operates on the internet on the Wards.com site and is actually owned b Direct Marketing Services.
Direct Marketing Services notified the major credit card brands of the incident but failed to alert customers. Now that the breach has been exposed, they’ve had a change of hart and are planning on letting all those affected know of the breach.
