Staples has confirmed today that it is investigating a potential credit card data breach at several of its Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York stores. While customers won’t be responsible for any fraudulent activity reported within a timely manner on their credit cards, Staples Inc. shares did drop 22 cents from $12.30 to $12.08 in premarket trading. Many retail credit card breaches happen as a result of malware attached to card payment terminals – allowing hackers to steal credit card numbers upon swiping. This happened in both the massive data breaches at Target and Home Depot. At this time, the cause of the Staples data breach in unknown.
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