Fort Wayne, Ind.-based handbag maker Vera Bradley Designs, Inc. said that payment cards used at its retail stores between July 25 and Sept. 23 were potentially hacked. Cards used online were not.
According to the company, they received notification of a potential data-security issue Sept. 15, and the company immediately launched an investigation with a computer-security firm. They found unauthorized access to the company's payment-processing system and the installation of a program that looked for and tracked payment-card data. Vera Bradley, which has 122 stores and 44 outlets, said it stopped the breach.
"The program was specifically designed to find track data in the magnetic stripe of a payment card that may contain the card number, cardholder name, expiration date, and internal verification code – as the data was being routed through the affected payment systems. There is no indication that other customer information was at risk," a notification on its website read.
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Roy W. Urrico specializes in articles about financial technology and services for Credit Union Times, as well as ghostwriting, copywriting, and case studies. Also: writer/editor of a semi-annual newsletter for Association for Financial Technology since 1997 and history projects funded by the U.S Interior Department, National Park Service and Warren County (N.Y.).
