DSW Data Theft (Much) Larger Than Originally Estimated

The Daily Caveat wrote recently about the customer data snafu at mega-shoe retailer DSW.

Well, new information indicates that the company's initial estimates regarding the number of effected customers were a little low - say 10% of the actual total (I can only hope my wife wasn't on the list, because she is certainly familiar with DSW). As many as 103 of the company's 175 stores were effected.

The company is now admitting that as many as 1.4 million individuals have had the credit card numbers misappropriated.

Read all about it via Forbes.com.

-- MDT