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Costco Data Breach a Bigger-Than-Expected Problem

Posted on August 7, 2015 by Dissent

Investopedia reports:

Warehouse membership club Costco says it needs more time to secure its photo processing website.

Third-party photo service provider PNI Digital Media was hacked last month, causing retailers Costco, CVS Health, and Wal-Mart to take down their respective photo processing websites and post cautionary notes in their place.

Costco had notified its customers at the time that it was “diligently working to determine when we can reenable the site, but in all likelihood, that will not occur until early August.” It updated that notice the other day to essentially say, on second thought, give us another week or so.

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