{"id":8300,"date":"2014-12-21T15:20:17","date_gmt":"2014-12-21T20:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/?p=8300"},"modified":"2014-12-21T16:13:29","modified_gmt":"2014-12-21T21:13:29","slug":"hackers-steal-million-customer-data-staples-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/2014\/12\/21\/business\/hackers-steal-million-customer-data-staples-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Hackers Steal Over Million Customer's Data from Staples Stores"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Headquarters of Staples, Inc. located at 500 Staples Drive, Framingham, MA 01702 (USA)<\/p><\/div>\n

FRAMINGHAM, MA<\/strong> - Framingham Massachusetts based office supply retailer Staples, Inc. has released updated info on the recent data breach involving 1.16 Million customer's info from its retail point-of-sale systems.<\/p>\n

In mid-September 2014, Staples' data security staff detected criminals had deployed malware to point-of-sale systems at 115 of Staples U.S. retail stores.<\/p>\n

Customer data at Staples' Framingham MA retail store was not<\/span> involved.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The malware allowed transaction data at affected stores, including cardholder names, payment card numbers, expiration dates, and card verification codes to be stolen by the hackers.<\/p>\n

The malware allowed access to this data from approximately July 20, 2014 through September 16, 2014.<\/p>\n

Like most other large retailers hit by similar hacks, Staples is offering free identity protection services, including credit monitoring, identity theft insurance, and a free credit report, to customers who used a payment card at any of the affected stores during the relevant time periods.<\/p>\n

During the period of time, Staples found fraudulent payment card use related to four stores in Manhattan, New York\u00a0 - but\u00a0 found no malware or suspicious activity related to the payment systems at those stores.<\/p>\n

Locally, stores in four Massachusetts towns were hit by the malware including: Shrewsbury<\/strong>, (571 Boston Tpke. )<\/em> , Plymouth<\/strong> (131 Samoset St.\u00a0 \/ Rte. 44)<\/em>, Seekonk<\/strong> (179 Highland Ave.)<\/em> , and Salem<\/strong>, (17 Paradise Rd.)<\/em> were affected.<\/p>\n

A complete List of Staples' Stores Hit by Malware can be viewed or downloaded (in PDF format) found here: 2014-STAPLES-Data-Breach-List-of-Stores<\/a><\/p>\n

Customers who shopped at listed Staples stores between August 10, 2014 September 16, 2014 should review their account statements and notify their card issuers of any suspicious activity.<\/p>\n

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FRAMINGHAM, MA – Framingham Massachusetts based office supply retailer Staples, Inc. has released updated info on the recent data breach involving 1.16 Million customer’s info from its retail point-of-sale systems. In mid-September 2014, Staples’ data security staff detected criminals had deployed malware to point-of-sale systems at 115 of Staples U.S. retail stores. Customer data at Staples’ Framingham… [read more]<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7325,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3808,3806,3804,3801,3805,3809,3803,976,3802,3807],"class_list":["post-8300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-card-swipe","tag-credit-card-data","tag-data-breach","tag-data-security","tag-data-theft","tag-hack","tag-hackers","tag-staples","tag-staples-inc","tag-stolen-credit-card-data"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8300"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8306,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8300\/revisions\/8306"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}