In April 2018, two major clothing retailers confirmed that hackers breached the stores' points of sale systems to steal the credit card information of more than a million shoppers. The two retailers notified customers that malware began running on point-of-sale systems across North America as early as July 1, 2017. Hackers claim to have stolen five million credit and debit card numbers.

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