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  <arrest type="boolean">false</arrest>
  <breach-type-id type="integer">1</breach-type-id>
  <comments-count type="integer">1</comments-count>
  <data-recovered type="boolean">false</data-recovered>
  <disputed type="boolean">false</disputed>
  <id type="integer">548</id>
  <lawsuit type="boolean">true</lawsuit>
  <records type="integer">94000000</records>
  <submission-id type="integer" nil="true"></submission-id>
  <updated-at type="datetime">2009-08-17T16:43:35-05:00</updated-at>
  <user-id type="integer" nil="true"></user-id>
  <breach-types type="array">
    <breach_type>
      <name>Hack</name>
    </breach_type>
  </breach-types>
  <data-types type="array">
    <data_type>
      <short_name>CCN</short_name>
    </data_type>
    <data_type>
      <short_name>NAA</short_name>
    </data_type>
  </data-types>
  <timeline-items type="array">
    <timeline_item>
      <first_date>Wed Jan 17 00:00:00 -0600 2007</first_date>
      <type>Organization reports incident</type>
    </timeline_item>
    <timeline_item>
      <first_date>Thu Aug 21 00:00:00 -0500 2008</first_date>
      <type>Arrest made</type>
    </timeline_item>
    <timeline_item>
      <first_date>Mon Jan 29 00:00:00 -0600 2007</first_date>
      <type>Lawsuit filed</type>
    </timeline_item>
  </timeline-items>
  <vector>
    <name>Outside</name>
  </vector>
  <primary-organization>
    <business-type-id type="integer">1</business-type-id>
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companies_acquired: []

name: TJX Companies
net_income: []

market_capitalization: 
- amount: 13000000000.0
  currency: 
  - name: US$
  valid_date: &quot;2007-12-31&quot;
subsidiary_companies: []

ticker_symbol: 
- ticker_symbol: TJX
  stock_exchange: NYSE
board_members: 
- title: 
  from: &quot;2007-06-08&quot;
  member: David T. Ching
  to: 
- title: 
  from: 
  member: Bernard Cammarata
  to: 
- title: 
  from: 2006-09
  member: Carol Meyrowitz
  to: 
- title: 
  from: 
  member: Willow B Shire
  to: 
- title: 
  from: 
  member: Fletcher H Wiley
  to: 
- title: 
  from: 
  member: Michael F Hines
  to: 
- title: 
  from: 
  member: David Brandon
  to: 
- title: 
  from: 
  member: Robert F Shapiro
  to: 
- title: 
  from: 
  member: John F Obrien
  to: 
- title: 
  from: 
  member: Amy B Lane
  to: 
type: /business/company
operating_income: 
- amount: 1615500000.0
  currency: 
  - name: US$
  valid_date: &quot;2007-01-27&quot;
number_of_employees: []

revenue: 
- amount: 17404600000.0
  currency: 
  - name: US$
  valid_date: &quot;2007-01-27&quot;
</freebase-cached-data>
    <freebase-description>&lt;p&gt;The TJX Companies, Incorporated (NYSE:&#160;TJX), is the largest international apparel and home fashions off-price department store chain in the United States. Based in Framingham, Massachusetts, the company originally evolved from the Zayre discount department store chain, founded in 1956, which opened its first branch of T.J. Maxx in 1976 and its first BJ's Wholesale Club in 1984. In 1988, Zayre sold their own nameplate to Ames, a rival discount department store chain, and the company renamed itself to The TJX Companies, Incorporated.
- Stanley Feldberg was one of the 1956 founders of Zayre Corp. He served as President of Zayre until 1978, and afterwards remained on the Board of Directors, until he retired in 1989.
- After separation from Zayre, by 1989 the TJX company consisted of its one...&lt;/p&gt;</freebase-description>
    <freebase-pref-name>TJX Companies</freebase-pref-name>
    <id type="integer">547</id>
    <is-private type="boolean">false</is-private>
    <name>TJX Companies Inc.</name>
    <stock-symbol>TJX</stock-symbol>
    <updated-at type="datetime">2009-03-06T20:52:19-06:00</updated-at>
  </primary-organization>
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  <summary>
    <summary>Hack exposes 94 million credit card numbers and transaction details</summary>
  </summary>
  <comments type="array">
    <comment>
      <content>We state 94 million records, unlike many media reports since the event occurred, because the MA Bankers Association, in their suit against TJX, stated at LEAST 94 million individual cards affected.

To our knowledge, 94 million claimed by the bankers association has not been disputed.

See the references section for details.</content>
      <created_at>Fri Jan 30 22:06:48 -0600 2009</created_at>
    </comment>
  </comments>
  <location>
    <address>USA</address>
    <thoroughfare_name></thoroughfare_name>
    <dependent_locality_name></dependent_locality_name>
    <locality_name></locality_name>
    <sub_administrative_area_name></sub_administrative_area_name>
    <administrative_area_name></administrative_area_name>
    <postal_code_number></postal_code_number>
    <country_name_code>US</country_name_code>
    <longitude>37.0902</longitude>
    <latitude>-95.7129</latitude>
    <accuracy>1</accuracy>
  </location>
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