Ukrainian Suspect Busted in TJX Case

TURKEY – Authorities hope the recent arrest of a Ukrainian man here with information from millions of accounts stolen from TJX will help them crack the biggest data breach in U.S. history. The U.S. Postal Inspection Service said Maksym Yastremskiy was arrested several weeks ago for selling stolen credit card numbers on Internet chat rooms. A significant number of the accounts turned out to be from TJX, which said last year hackers stole information from as many as 45.6 million accounts. The breach caused credit unions and banks all over the country to cancel and reissue millions of credit cards from people who had shopped at one of the retail giant’s TJ Maxx, Marshall’s, Home Sense, Homegoods and AJ Wright’s stores. Yastremskiy allegedly sold card numbers through online forums hosted overseas, sometimes in Cyrillic or that were password protected. He is likely the largest seller of stolen TJX numbers. Earlier this year, 10 individuals in Florida were charged with using TJX data, some of it purchased from Yastremskiy, to steal $8 million in transactions at Wal-Mart and other stores.