Forever 21, one of the most popular fashion retailer, is the latest retailer to fall a victim of a credit card breach that might affect thousands of customers.
On Tuesday, the company revealed that they were recently notified by a third party about the "unauthorized access to data from payment cards that were used at certain Forever 21 stores."
Forever21 said that they immediately began an investigation of its payment card systems. An unnamed cyberforensics firm has also been pulled in to try and ascertain the extent of the breach, should this have occurred.
The Los Angeles-based clothier hasn't revealed the exact number of how many customers could be potentially affected or where the stores are located.
According to the firm, "Because of the encryption and tokenization solutions that FOREVER 21 implemented in 2015, it appears that only certain point of sale devices in some FOREVER 21 stores was affected when the encryption on those devices was not in operation."
The investigators are focussing on the transactions made in store from March to October this year.
The company has advised all its customers "to closely monitor their payment card statements. If customers see an unauthorized charge, they should immediately notify the bank that issued the card. Payment card network rules generally state that cardholders are not responsible for such charges."
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