Forever 21: Assessor Missed 5-Year-Old Transaction Data
October 1st, 2008"The files were inadvertently retained within other data files and this was not uncovered by the assessor," a statement from the chain said. This is proving to be a frightening trend, with retailers believing they are compliant and much later on discovering various pockets of forbidden data scattered through their networks. One of the problems in this case—and it could be argued it's a problem with PCI itself—is that it's up to the retailer's IT person to map out the networks for the assessor.Read more...