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High Tech Horoscope Entertainment Music Features Books Poetry Movie Reviews Home & Garden Industry States Health Column Senior Health Environment Education SupportOurTroops Iraq Iran Nepal Kashmir Cartoons Video Releases Most Read WIRES Eworldwire Marketwire GlobeNewswire PRNewswire Send2Press CCNMatthews 24-7 Pressrelease WebitPR PR.com ACNNewswire Business Wire NewsBlazeWire Spanish Releases Movers/Shakers OTHER About Us Contact Us Feedback Writers Resources Link to Us Advertise Sitemap TECHNOLOGY RFID Supply Chain Text to Speech Voice Over IP Wi-Fi Games iPod Biotech NEWSPAPERS Folsom Orange County Boca Raton St Augustine Vero Beach Breaking News: Lack of Regulation to Blame for Financial Collapse Tell Friends about NewsBlaze and get a gift Published: Send to a friend Forever 21 Provides Notice to Customers Regarding Security Breach Incident LOS ANGELES, Sept. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Forever 21 has posted a notice to its website, http://www.forever21.com, to alert customers who shopped at our stores on the dates and during the period identified below about a security breach incident. Law enforcement recently informed Forever 21 that our systems may have been illegally accessed to obtain customer payment card information. We have determined that this incident may have affected a subset of Forever 21 customers who shopped at our stores on the following nine dates: March 25, 2004; March 26, 2004; June 23, 2004; July 2, 2004; July 3, 2004; August 4, 2007; August 5, 2007; August 13, 2007; and August 14, 2007. In addition, the incident may have affected customers who shopped at ourFresno, California store located as 567 E. Shaw Ave. between November 26, 2003 and October 24, 2005. On August 5, 2008, the U.S. Department of Justice inBoston filed indictments against 3 individuals alleged to have committed crimes involving credit card fraud against 12 retailers. That morning, Forever 21 was contacted by the U.S. Secret Service and was advised that our company was identified in the indictment as one of the retail victims. We subsequently received from the Secret Service a disk of potentially compromised file data. We promptly retained forensic consultants to help us examine the file data and our systems. Based on that investigation, we believe that the unauthorized persons accessed older credit and debit card transaction data for approximately 98,930 credit and debit card numbers. Approximately 20,500 of these numbers were obtained from theFresno store transaction data. The data included credit and debit card numbers and in some instances expiration dates and other card data, but did not include customer name and address. More than half of the affected payment card numbers are no longer active or have expired expiration dates. We have been working with our acquiring bank and payment card networks to resolve the situation. Affected customers may receive a written notice about this incident from their card issuing institutions, mailed to the address related to the account number. We have also contacted the three principal credit reporting bureaus, Equifax, Experian and TransUnion, to advise them of the situation. Since 2007 when the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (the "PCI Standards") were imposed, our systems have been certified to be in compliance with the PCI standards, including the data encryption standards. After we were informed of this incident, we adopted additional proactive security measures and continue to regularly monitor our systems for intrusions. In the posting on our website, http://www.forever21.com, we have provided information about steps customers may take to protect themselves from payment card fraud. The information includes measures recommended by the Federal Trade Commission (the "FTC") and materials available on the FTC's Web site, http://www.consumer.gov/idtheft/. Customers with questions about this incident should review our website posting or may contact us at the following customer service number, 1-888-757-4447. 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