There are updates on tjmaxx and marshalls. TJX in the beginning supposed the intrusion began in May 2006 but the company said its ongoing investigation discovered the breach started nearly a year earlier, in July 2005.

Also, TJX declared that credit and debit card data had been accessed concerning transactions at U.S. and Puerto Rican stores from as far as January 2003 through June 2004, and credit card-only transactions at Canadian shops during the same period.

If you do live in a state where you can freeze your credit reports, I suggest that you do so. It's going to take some persistence — the three credit bureaus, Equifax, Experian and TransUnion, don't exactly roll out the red carpet to help you put on a freeze. You'll need to contact every bureau separately, and must make a written request. The three credit bureaus can be reached at :

Spamnation.info does a great job in exposing the stock spammers and the  spam-advertised stocks. The listing shows the name of the company, its symbol, and the number of messages received. Unfortunately he pissed off some cyber crime spam lords and his site was to pay the price.

The Massachusetts Attorney General is heading up a group of more than 30 states trying to get some answers to how the massive T.J. Maxx, Marshalls, Homegoods, and A.J. Wright data breach actually happened.

Hackers, terrorists and nations all use computers, but who really is capable of damaging the critical infrastructure of the United States? The UNH Cyber Threat Calculator was unveiled Thursday, Jan. 25, 2007, at the Department of Defense Cyber Crime Conference 2007 in St. Louis, Missouri. The UNH Cyber Threat Calculator was developed by researchers at UNH Justiceworks and students, and offers a new method to identify and quantify the threats posed to the United States' cyber infrastructure.

The official Web site of Dolphin Stadium, the host of this weekend's Super Bowl XLI game has been infected with a Trojan horse program. The malware seeks to download keystroke-logging software on Windows computers if users visit the site without the latest security updates from Microsoft, security experts warn.

Customers of T.J. Maxx, Marshalls, HomeGoods, and A.J. Wright Bring Class Action Suit for Loss of Credit Card Data; Filed by Berger & Montague, PC and Stern Shapiro Weissberg & Garin, LLP.The complaint charges that TJX was careless for failing to preserve sufficient computer data security of customer credit and debit card data, which was accessed and stolen by a computer hacker.

Community banks in New England have acknowledged at least 200,000 credit and debit cards compromised by the TJX Cos. security breach, and several Massachusetts banks reported cases of fraud related with card numbers stolen from the Framingham merchant's computer system.

Client data stolen from TJX Cos. by computer hackers has been used to make illegal debit card and credit card acquisitions in the United States and abroad, the Massachusetts Bankers Association said Wednesday. The fraudulent purchases have been made in Florida, Georgia, and Louisiana, and overseas in Hong Kong and Sweden, the association declared.

UPDATE! Police are advising credit card holders to watch their accounts very closely over the next few weeks.They are concerned about a raise in identity theft after the parent company of T.J. Max and Marshall's reported a security breach.