T.J. Maxx parent company sued in credit card hack probe | CNET News.com: "A major shareholder in T.J. Maxx and Marshalls parent company TJX Companies has filed a lawsuit to obtain documents concerning a hacking incident that left large amounts of customer credit card data vulnerable.

The Arkansas Carpenters Pension Fund, one of TJX's largest shareholders, filed the suit Monday in the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware. The group claimed that TJX has 'wrongfully denied (them) access to the materials' pertaining to the data breach, which began in May 2006 and ended early this year. The company discovered the intrusion in December and first announced in January that its systems had been compromised.

In the far-reaching hacking incident, credit and debit card data between January 2003 and June 2004 was potentially exposed for customers of all TJX stores in the U.S., Canada and Puerto Rico, with the exception of the Bob's Stores chain. There was also evidence of intrusion into the system that handles customer transactions for TJX's T.K. Maxx chain in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Some drivers license data may also have been left vulnerable.

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