The Billion-Dollar Hacking Group Behind a String of Big Breaches

Published: April 5, 2018, 7:59 a.m.

This week, Saks Fifth Avenue, Saks Off 5th, and Lord & Taylor department stores\u2014all owned by The Hudson\u2019s Bay Company\u2014acknowledged a data breach impacting more than five million credit and debit card numbers. The culprits? The same group that's spent the last few years pulling off data heists from Omni Hotels & Resorts, Trump Hotels, Jason\u2019s Deli, Whole Foods, Chipotle: A mysterious group known as Fin7.