Target, Home Depot, KMart and now Staples. From Fortune:
The office-supply retailer gave new details about a breach at more than 100 of its stores
Staples said Friday afternoon that nearly 1.16 million customer payment cards may have been affected in a data breach under investigation since October.
The office-supply retailer said two months ago that it was working with law enforcement officials to look into a possible hacking of its customers’ credit card data. Staples said in October that it had learned of a potential data theft at several of its U.S. stores after multiple banks noticed a pattern of payment card fraud suggesting the company computer systems had been breached.
Check your receipts and your credit card statements every month - this crap is going to get worse before it gets better. We are going to need a new system for point of sale and that is going to take time to roll out.