The professional salon chain Sally Beauty has confirmed that it is investigating a potential breach of its card payment systems.

Brian Krebs, author of the tech blog Krebs on Security, reported Wednesday that 282,000 debit and credit card accounts from the chain had been offered for sale on underground card markets overseas.

Krebs reported that a spokesman for Sally Beauty acknowledged that a software system the retailer uses to detect security breaches was activated on or around Feb. 24. Krebs also reported that while the spokesman said the firm had detected a breach, no data had yet been confirmed as compromised or stolen.

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