The tape contained in-store credit-card information on 650,000 retail customers. J.C. Penney was the only company affected. In total, 230 retailers are affected by the data breach. The company is offering one year of free credit monitoring services to those affected. The tape also contained Social Security numbers of 150,000 customers. In 2006, thieves stole 94 million credit- and debit-card numbers from TJ Maxx computer networks in the same way, a common form of identity theft.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2112973/230-retailers-affected-by-data-breach-after-tape-lost.html

