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Sears Holdings Kmart discount chain said it will provide customers with free credit monitoring as it investigates a computer-hacker breach detected last week.
 
  
The retailer s information-technology team identified the breach on Oct. 9 and is working with a security firm to assess the incursion, which happened in early September, Kmart said in an Oct. 10 filing. Customer payment-card information was probably exposed by the attack.
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The Olowo of Owo, Oba Folagbade Olateru-Olagbegi, has urged the people of the community, particularly the youth, to play politics in a manner that would be beneficial to the town.
  
According to the security experts Kmart has been working with, the Kmart store payment data systems were infected with a form of malware that was undetectable by current anti-virus systems, the company said in the filing. Kmart was able to quickly remove the malware. However, Kmart believes certain debit and credit card numbers have been compromised.  
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This is just as the Owo Youth Assembly, a conglomeration of young people of the town, has demanded that the Ondo North senatorial seat in the National Assembly be conceded to the town as the nation prepares for the next general election.
  
A wave of data breaches at companies including Home Depot, Target and Neiman Marcus Group have pressured retailers to bolster database and credit-card processing security. Nationwide concerns about cyber intrusions have escalated after JPMorgan Chase Co. recently disclosed that an attack by hackers exposed contact information of 76 million households and 7 million small businesses.
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The Olowo, while speaking with strategic youth conference tagged: 鈥淥wo political balance sheet 2015 and beyond, challenges and prospects鈥? said their was the need for the people to desist from selfishness.
  
The company s credit-monitoring offer extends to everyone who used a credit or debit card at Kmart stores in September through Oct. 9, the company said in an Oct. 10 statement.
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The traditional ruler, who spoke through the Olubojo of Owo, High Chief Joseph Olayiwola, urged the youth to engage in constructive dialogue to be able to achieve the desired goals of the community in the political calculation in the state.
  
Kmart said it doesn t appear that personal information, debit-card PINs, e-mail addresses or social security numbers were obtained by the hackers. Howard Riefs, a spokesman, was unable to provide the number of customers affected.
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Olowo also enjoined the people of the community to come together irrespective of party affiliation to work for the development of the town and make it occupy its rightful place in the state.
  
Kmart said in the statement that it s working closely with federal law enforcement authorities, banking partners and IT security firms in the ongoing investigation and is deploying further advanced software to protect customers information.  
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The President, Owo Youth Assembly, Olamiposi Oyegoke, said concerted efforts should be made by all irrespctive of political divide to come together and ensure the emergence of an Owo indigene as the next senator.
  
Home Depot s data breach between April and September put about 56 million payment cards at risk, the company said in September. The hackers used custom-made software to evade detection as they infiltrated computers at stores in the U.S. and Canada, relying on tools that haven t been seen in previous attacks, according to the Atlanta-based home improvement retailer.
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He argued that the agitation was borne out of the fact that the town, which was the headquarters of the old Owo division had been marginalised for so long.
  
The company began investigating the attack on Sept. 2, immediately after banking partners and law enforcement raised alarms that its systems may have been infiltrated. Home Depot has said that while payment systems were hacked, there is no evidence that debit-card PINs have been compromised.
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According to him, the Akokos that belong to the same senatorial district had produced majority of the present key political office holders at the detriment of Owo.
  
Target has recorded $146 million in expenses as of Aug. 2 related to the discount chain s breach in which data for 40 million accounts were stolen. Part of the expenses include an estimate on claims yet to be made by the credit card companies.
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He listed the posts to include the deputy governor, deputy speaker of the state House of Assembly, the Nigerian ambassador from the state, the Chief of Staff to the President, the state Chief Judge and many more.
  
More than 100 lawsuits have been filed against Target relating to the breach, which contributed to the ouster of Chief Executive Officer Gregg Steinhafel in May. The chain also blamed the attack, which became public in December, for a sales decline in the fourth quarter.
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He lamented that the situation could lead to the complete extinction of Owo community in the Ondo North district of the state.
  
Hackers also have attacked Supervalu and AB Acquisition, the operator of the Albertsons supermarket chain.
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Also speaking, one of the leaders of the youth, Foluso Taiwo, said the infrastrucural facilities in the community needed to be upgraded for it to fit into the comity of developed communities.
  
Sears, based in Hoffman Estates, Illinois, is struggling to revive sales growth and is unloading assets to generate cash after nine straight quarters of losses.
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According to him, the town needed a 132 KVA power station to boost electricity supply and also improve its economic base.
  
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The Olowo of Owo, Oba Folagbade Olateru-Olagbegi, has urged the people of the community, particularly the youth, to play politics in a manner that would be beneficial to the town.

This is just as the Owo Youth Assembly, a conglomeration of young people of the town, has demanded that the Ondo North senatorial seat in the National Assembly be conceded to the town as the nation prepares for the next general election.

The Olowo, while speaking with strategic youth conference tagged: 鈥淥wo political balance sheet 2015 and beyond, challenges and prospects鈥? said their was the need for the people to desist from selfishness.

The traditional ruler, who spoke through the Olubojo of Owo, High Chief Joseph Olayiwola, urged the youth to engage in constructive dialogue to be able to achieve the desired goals of the community in the political calculation in the state.

Olowo also enjoined the people of the community to come together irrespective of party affiliation to work for the development of the town and make it occupy its rightful place in the state.

The President, Owo Youth Assembly, Olamiposi Oyegoke, said concerted efforts should be made by all irrespctive of political divide to come together and ensure the emergence of an Owo indigene as the next senator.

He argued that the agitation was borne out of the fact that the town, which was the headquarters of the old Owo division had been marginalised for so long.

According to him, the Akokos that belong to the same senatorial district had produced majority of the present key political office holders at the detriment of Owo.

He listed the posts to include the deputy governor, deputy speaker of the state House of Assembly, the Nigerian ambassador from the state, the Chief of Staff to the President, the state Chief Judge and many more.

He lamented that the situation could lead to the complete extinction of Owo community in the Ondo North district of the state.

Also speaking, one of the leaders of the youth, Foluso Taiwo, said the infrastrucural facilities in the community needed to be upgraded for it to fit into the comity of developed communities.

According to him, the town needed a 132 KVA power station to boost electricity supply and also improve its economic base.

Apart from power station, Taiwo added that government and the private sector should collaborate to build an ultra modern civic centre and a youth centre for the people.

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