Sources warn of major credit card breach at Teavana
According to a report by a security expert, Teavana may have suffered a severe data breach that compromised clients' credit and debit card information. Multiple sources in law enforcement and the financial community cite fraud rates indicative of a data breach coming from many, if not all of its 280 locations nationwide. A likely scenario is that hackers gathered customer credit card information using malicious software installed on point-of-sale devices at the register. One debit and credit card issuer was alerted about this more than a month ago following a spike in fraudulent charges from counterfeit cards that were used to purchase expensive gift cards. A spokesperson for Teavana said that the company does not comment on ongoing investigations.