Encryption! Gotta love it! It makes paying for things so easy, and secure… Most of the time.

You swipe your card when you buy a t-shirt, gas up your car, or whatever else you do with your plastic. Then, your sensitive, (hopefully) encrypted payment data gets fed into a Point-of-Sale (PoS) system, decrypted in the PoS’s RAM for processing, and you’re good to go.

Except when you’re not. And that gets us to PoS malware and its latest victim, the clothing store Forever 21.

Forever 21, based in Los Angeles, announced on Tuesday that an unidentified third party told the clothier that there may have been unauthorized access to data from payment cards that were used at certain stores.

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