MAPCO Faces More Lawsuits

Three class actions have been filed in Alabama against MAPCO for alleged security breaches. Pittman, Dutton & Hellums, P.C., filed one of those suits on behalf of a Tuscaloosa resident.

Although the extent of the breach is unknown at this time, it is thought to be enormous. It may be that all 377 of MAPCO stores have been hit. The MAPCO family of stores include MAPCO Express®, MAPCO Mart®, Discount Food Mart™, Delta Express®, Fast Food & Fuel™.

Another article has been published detailing the breach and the lawsuits. Tracy Kitten, the journalist covering the story, did an excellent job: http://www.bankinfosecurity.com/mapco-express-sued-over-malware-attack-a-5894

We have reason to believe that one MAPCO location in particular, located in Rising Fawn, Georgia, off of Interstate 59, 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 

Major Breach of MAPCO Database May Affect Thousands of Consumers

 

MAPCO Express, a retail gas station and convenience store company based out of Brentwood, Tennessee, experienced a major security breach earlier this year. MAPCO has locations in Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, Virginia and Arkansas.

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:

http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/article/20130625/NEWS/130629888/1291/living?Title=Northport-lawyer-sues-convenience-store-chain&tc=ar

We have reason to believe that one MAPCO location in particular, located on the corner of McFarland and 69^th 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