TJX Revises Consumer Settlement, Agrees To Pay Cash
Written by Evan SchumanOctober 9th, 2007
How did the TJX breach start? Reports that the attack began using a wireless entry point have been confirmed by multiple investigators, but reports that circulated in March that the attacks began via an in-store employment kiosk have re-emerged.
Could both be true? It?s unlikely, as both entry attempts were reprotedly successful, raising the question of why the second was attempted. Could TJX have actually been the victim of two simultaneous and unrelated attacks, one using wireless and the other a jobs kiosks that was not firewall-protected?
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October 9th, 2007 at 9:27 pm
Oh, this is a total crock. $30 vouchers for merchandise that already didn’t sell at ‘suggested retail’? They won’t have my size, or anything I like anyway!
And now, perhaps, the time money I had to spend to get a new credit card and number, repair anything that may have automatically used the old number, etcetera, is worth $15? What is that per hour? 37 cents?
I am totally disgusted. At least the lawyers are happy.
RW
October 9th, 2007 at 9:37 pm
Editor’s Note: Actually, TJX’s proposed settlement has its own area for whatever time a consumer can prove was spent chasing down things to fix the credit problem. But it had a low cap (http://storefrontbacktalk.com/story/092207TJXsettlement.php) and it assumed that consumers’ time was worth only $10/hour.
One lawyer involved defended the hourly, saying that it was presumably time spent at home that would not have otherwise been billed at a corporate rate. Maybe.