A group of hackers stole the data of five million credit and debit cards from customers of American stores and put them up for sale, as the cyber security company Gemini Advisory announced yesterday Sunday.
According to the company, this is the work of the self-proclaimed JokerStash team, which recently announced that it had stolen personal data and sold about 125.000 files. "In cooperation with many financial institutions, we confirmed with great certainty that the files were stolen from customers of the Saks Fifth Avenue and Lord & Taylor stores.
"We estimate that the interceptions concern the period from May 2017 until today", the company states in a statement. Most of the customers of these stores, who fell victim to eavesdropping, live in the states of New Jersey and New York.
The stores are owned by the Canadian company Hudson`s Bay Bay Co. "This cyberattack is one of the largest and most devastating to date in retail companies," said cybersecurity experts. According to the report, the hackers of the JokerStash team have in the past stolen personal data from customers of chain stores such as Whole Foods, Chipotle, Omni Hotels & Resorts as well as from the hotel chains of US President Donald Trump.