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.
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 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:
The 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 Chris Hellums at 1-866-515-8880 or by email at chrish@pittmandutton.com
