GRAHAM — Lawyers from three states put their names on a class-action lawsuit filed in Alamance County over the number of digits of credit-card numbers a retailer puts on receipts.

Chapel Hill resident Timothy Miles accuses The Company Store of printing as many as 10 digits — the first six and last four — of his credit card number on a receipt. Credit cards generally have 16 digits.

According to the suit, the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act restricts retailers to printing no more than the last five digits of a credit card number, and has since 2006, to reduce the risk of identity theft.

There could be thousands of participants in the class-action suit, according to the suit, including anyone “with sales or transaction receipts whereon Defendant printed more than the last five digits of the credit or debit card number.” The transactions have to be within two years of the suit’s filing, and participants could be awarded $100 to $1,000.

The defendants are bedding retailer The Company Store Inc. and Hanover Company Store LLC. Parent company Hanover Direct, with offices in La Crosse Wis., and Weehawken, N.J., is a major catalog retailer. A call to the company’s office Friday was not returned.

The Company Store has brick-and-mortar stores in three states. At least three are in Wisconsin, where the chain started, and one is in the Tanger Outlet Center in Mebane.

Three lawyers were in the filing. Charlotte attorney Stephen Ashley referred questions to the lead attorney in the suit. Calls to Jackson, Miss., attorney Brian Herrington and Glendale, Calif., attorney Chant Yedalian were not returned.

Herrington Law specializes in class-action suits, according to its website, and Yedalian, of Chant & Co., a Professional Law Corporation, bills himself as a consumer activist, and class-action suites are one of his specialties.

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