On May 6, 2013, MAPCO first publicly announced that it was
hit by a wide-reaching security breach that left thousands of customers exposed
to fraud and identify theft from transactions that date back as far as March of
this year. Computer hackers stole the
credit/debit card information of MAPCO customers and have been making
unauthorized transactions with this financial information.
The
rules that cover transactions on credit cards, check cards, and debit cards require
merchants to validate a series of security measures, such as the establishment
of firewalls to protect databases. Among
other things, merchants, such as MAPCO, are prohibited from storing unprotected
cardholder information.
Pittman,
Dutton & Hellums, P.C., has filed a class action complaint against MAPCO for those
injured by this security breach. A recent story in The Tuscaloosa News was published on its affiliated website which discusses
the story in greater detail:
We
have reason to believe that one MAPCO location in particular, located on the
corner of McFarland and 69th in Tuscaloosa, was hit by the hackers.
The
relevant dates of the security breach occurred between March 19-25, April 14-15
and April 20-21 of 2013. If you used a credit or
debit card at any MAPCO location and were injured by the MAPCO breach, please
contact Booth Samuels at 1-866-515-8880 or by email at booths@pittmandutton.com
