DSW Data Theft Much Larger Than Estimated
DSW Shoe Warehouse said Monday that it has contact information for about half of those people and started sending letters notifying them of the thefts, which happened at 108 stores in 25 states between November and February. A list of the stores is available on the company’s Web site.
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Besides the credit card numbers, the thieves obtained driver’s license numbers and checking account numbers from 96,000 transactions involving checks, the company said. Customer names, addresses and Social Security numbers were not stolen, DSW said.
Suck. I’m a total show whore, and I love me some DSW. This doesn’t give me good feelings, though.
Luckily, we haven’t seen any untoward activity on our credit cards. Judging from the DSW site, though, it looks like we should keep watching:
… if you shopped in one of the following stores between mid-November 2004 and mid-February 2005, and you used a credit card, debit card or check to pay for your purchase, your information was most likely included in the stolen information …
Yep. We’re on there.
The broomfield one is the one at the mall right? We never bought anything from them. I believe all our purchases were at the one in Westminster which is not on the list.
I believe the “Westminster, CA” listing is a typo. And I’m not totally sure we didn’t buy something at the Broomfield location as well — maybe my Docs.
Scratch that. Westminster appears to be in Orange County…
Wow, there are going to be a lot of angry women roaming around Downtown Crossing :-).
IMHO, my credit card company should automatically flag any suspicious charges when they are alerted about cases like this. A while back when my card info was stolen via Egghead, the story came out and said to look for a particular faulty charge for about $5 from some Russian company. Did Citibank call me? Nope. I had to call and argue with Customer Service. Wonder how many of those fake charges never got caught.