CVS Investigates Credit Card Breach At Its Online Photo Service

Convenience-store giant CVS has shut down its online photo center after a possible security breach may have exposed credit card data.

“Nothing is more central to us than protecting the privacy and security of our customer information including financial information”, the CVS statement reads. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Calls placed to PNI Digital Media by USAToday were not immediately returned.

PNI is now a subsidiary of Staples, which itself was hacked past year and lost 1.2 million credit cards.

The similar firm ran Walmart Canada’s on-line photograph middle, which Walmart final week stated had possibly been compromised.

CVS did not name the other company.

CVS says the photo service is run by a separate company, so the breach has not affected anyone who shopped on the main page of their website or at their stores. This implies CVS’s photo service was the only company affected, but details are still scarce and will be until both CVS and PNI Digital Media finish their ongoing investigations into the breach. We are working closely with the vendor and our financial partners and will share updates as we know more.

UCLA Health said on Friday that data on as many as 4.5 million individuals was at potentially at risk, although it added it had not yet found evidence that individuals’ personal or medical information was actually accessed or acquired during the breach.