14 DAY TRIAL // As you might have read before, retail giant TJX has suffered from hackers' attacks for about one and a half years. The malicious users had compromised more than 45 million accounts, both debit and credit. Wow!
The United States have three great law enforcement agencies on this: The US Postal Inspection Service, US Secret Service and the US Justice Department. They are pretty desperate to find something more about it as they don't really have too many leads on this matter.
These intrusions and hackings have cost the company a lot; if at the beginning they were estimating $118 million dollars, now they say it's going to cost them about $256 million, as The Register informs us. This is certainly a lot of money, but this is a $13 billion dollar company, so they can 'afford' it.
The good news is that US law enforcers might be on to something. As I've read on the same site I mentioned above, Ukrainian Maksym Yastremskiy was arrested several weeks ago for selling stolen credit card numbers in online forums. This guy has not hacked anything himself, or at least there is no proof of that yet, but what is known for sure is the fact that at some time, during his criminal activities, he had possessed card accounts that had been stolen from TJX.
Now, it's quite simple to predict where this is going to lead if the culprit cooperates - he's going to tell the Police where he got those cards from, then they will try to find the other guy, and so on and so forth, until they get to the original hackers. Let's hope this works! However, I doubt this is going to be easy, since those guys were attacking TJX for one year and a half and were not caught, so that must mean they know how to hide themselves pretty well.