A group of banks is claiming that
the data breach at
retailer TJX actually affected
94 million consumers, rather than the 46 million customers TJX claimed.
The accusation has been made in court documents and puts the figure at more
than double the original estimate.
The group, which includes Massachusetts and Connecticut Bankers Associations,
claims 65 million Visa account numbers and 29 million MasterCard account numbers
were stolen.
The legal challenge includes sealed testimony from the two credit card
companies and Visa has already estimated its losses at between $68m-$83m
(£33m-£40.5m).
TJX originally calculated its losses at $12m.
However, in September this year the company
agreed to settle
a series of class-action lawsuits by customers, bring its total losses from the
data breach to roughly $128m.
The problems occurred over an 18-month period covering 2005 and 2006 at the
company's database in Massachusetts.
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