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The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is an information security standard used to handle credit cards from major card brands. The standard is administered by the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council, and its use is mandated by the card brands. It was created to better control cardholder data and reduce credit ...
In the days prior to Thanksgiving 2013, someone installed malware in Target's security and payments system designed to steal every credit card used at the company's 1,797 U.S. stores. At the ...
Target will no longer accept personal checks from shoppers as of July 15, another sign of how a once ubiquitous payment method is going the way of outmoded objects like floppy disks and the Rolodex.
Target today said that it has booked $162 million in expenses across 2013 and 2014 related to its data breach, in which hackers broke into the company’s network to access credit card information ...
Target’s massive credit card breach reported last month may be worse than previously thought. Today, the company disclosed the attack affected as many as 70 million individuals, whose names ...
Last week the retailer revealed that credit card data from 40 million customers had been stolen. Now it looks like the giant retailer could be liable for up to $3.6 billion. Target could face a ...
It launched the Target Guest Card, the discount retail industry's first store credit card. [2] In 1996, J.C. Penney Company, Inc., the fifth-largest retailer in the United States, offered to buy out Dayton-Hudson, the fourth largest retailer, for $6.82 billion. The offer, which most analysts considered as insufficiently valuing the company, was ...
The hackers were able to get into Target's systems by compromising a company web server and uploading the BlackPOS software to Target's POS systems. As a result of this attack, more than 40 million customer credit and debit card information, and more than 70 million addresses, phone numbers, names, and other personal information, was stolen.