UPS Stores, a subsidiary of UPS, said that a security breach may have led to the theft of customer credit and debit data at 51 UPS franchises in the United States. Chelsea Lee, a UPS spokeswoman, said the company began investigating its systems for indications of a security breach on July 31, the day The New York Times reported that the Department of Homeland Security and the Secret Service would be issuing a bulletin warning retailers that hackers had been scanning networks for remote access capabilities, then installing so-called malware that was undetectable by antivirus products.
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