The professional salon chain Sally Beauty has confirmed that itis investigating a potential breach of its card paymentsystems.

Brian Krebs, author of the tech blog Krebs on Security,reported Wednesday that 282,000 debit and credit card accounts fromthe chain had been offered for sale on underground card marketsoverseas.

Krebs reported that a spokesman for Sally Beauty acknowledgedthat a software system the retailer uses to detect securitybreaches was activated on or around Feb. 24. Krebs also reportedthat while the spokesman said the firm had detected a breach, nodata had yet been confirmed as compromised or stolen.

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