81. Credit card data breaches

81. Credit card data breaches
Tags: Top 100 Retail
December 29, 2009

As if retailers didn't have enough to worry about, credit card data breaches are reaching crisis level, if only in the minds of consumers. Between Heartland, TJX and a third major breach about which Visa has, to date, stubbornly refused to reveal details, many customers are starting to feel that nowhere is safe. A new Gartner study reveals that 7.5 percent of U.S. adults lost money as a result of financial fraud in 2008, mostly due to data breaches.