They are reporting 110 million. That means about 1 in every 3 Americans bought something there last year.
The Ad executives ought to get a big bonus.
If a Class Action suit is put together, then those affected will probably only get three or four dollars, but the shysters will rake in millions.
“So I guess their annoying asking for my zip code to buy something really helped security a lot.”
Apparently, most of our credit cards have zip codes, addresses, phone #’s and other data, we don’t everyone to have.
My wife used her bank credit card at Target, and last week the card was replaced without any bad actions/activities. Now we know why.
This was/is an act of economic terrorism, and those at fault, should be treated as terrorists.
I thought it was an inside job from the start. The level of compromise involved was just too great.
“asking for my zip code”
Done for marketing purposes.
My credit card just got hit, and I’ve never shopped at Target.
"Duh"
I’m wondering if they got one piece of data, if that would chain into more and more pieces of data? Say you used card A at Target. Would that open up links to cards B, C and D in your wallet? And if your spouse’s name was on any of them, would it open up cards X, Y and Z in their wallets. Then you signed for Junior and Juniorette to get cards when they got of age and this eventually wiggled it’s way into their data, too.
The Target collapse re data breeches is just one of many such problems, aka the tip of the iceberg:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3110887/posts
Target Stores security breach just the tip of the iceberg
American Thinker ^ | 01/12/2014 | Rick Moran
Target has increased the estimate for the number of customers exposed in the massive hacking attack between Thanksgiving and December 14. It now appears at least 70 million consumers had their credit cards compromised.
Also, Neiman-Marcus announced that they, too, were victims of a cyber attack over Christmas. And in an exclusive report, Reuters is saying that several other well known retailers were also hacked over the holidays.
Neiman Marcus said an outside forensics firm discovered evidence on January 1 that indicated the retailer had been the victim of a cyber attack. It disclosed the breach nine days later, after another inquiry from Krebs, who was following up on reports about a surge in fraudulent charges traced to the retailer.
Target and J.C. Penney Co Inc. waited more than two years to admit that they were victims in 2007 of notorious hacker Albert Gonzalez, who was accused of masterminding the theft and reselling of millions of credit cards and ATM numbers.
During his trial the companies were represented by lawyers who did not identify their clients as Target and J.C Penney.
Doug Johnson, vice president of risk management policy with the American Bankers Association, said banks and credit card firms like Visa are forbidden from naming merchants that have been breached, unless they disclose it themselves.
Excerpt go to the link for full story:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3110887/posts
- Those Obamacare website “Navigators” seem to have figured that that credit card and Social Security info they asked for is giving them a big Chicago style “piece of the action” in the Target Stores scams…..