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2018 Saks/Lord & Taylor — 5M credit cards

2018 5.0M records affected Share on X

Data compromised

Credit and debit card numbers, expiration dates

Technical writeup

Saks Fifth Avenue and Lord & Taylor (both Hudson's Bay brands) suffered a breach in 2018 when malware was installed on point-of-sale systems. Approximately 5 million credit and debit card records were stolen. The breach affected stores across North America over several months.

Root cause

POS malware; card skimming

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