Just two weeks after Target confirmed millions of customer credit card information was stolen by a hacker, the luxury retailer Neiman Marcus announced some customers card information had been stolen and used during the holiday season, according to the Associated Press.
Neiman Marcus confirmed the retail store had been the victim of a hack on Saturday, the AP reported. The second breach, announced weeks after Target's system was hacked, shows an increasing need for greater cyber-security to protect customer information.
In an email sent Saturday, Ginger Reeder, a spokeswoman for the Dallas-based Neiman Marcus Group Ltd., said the luxury store was notified in December by their credit card processing company that there were "potentially unauthorized" buys after customers made a purchase at the store, according to the AP.
After receiving the warning, Neiman Marcus brought in investigators on Jan.1, almost half a month after they were notified and after the holiday season had ended, to verify what happened, the AP reported.
Forensics confirmed that numerous customer credit and debit cards had been compromised due to a cyber-security attack, according to the AP.
In the email, Reeder did not give an amount of customers who were likely affected, but said the retailer is notifying customers whose information was used fraudulently, the AP reported. The luxury retailer has more than 40 locations and is being assisted by the Secret Service who also investigated the Target breach.
"We have begun to contain the intrusion and have taken significant steps to further enhance information security," Reeder wrote in the email, according to the AP.
Neiman Marcus' breach is taking place at the same time Target announced there were more customers affected by the security breach than the initial amount, saying 70 million customers had been attacked in the hack, the AP reported.
In the recent announcement, Target also confirmed the hackers stole customer names, phone numbers, email and mailing addresses, according to the AP.
