Senate Report Analyzes Target Breach: Pinpoints Apparent Missed Opportunities to Prevent Incident. Target Corp. possibly missed several opportunities to prevent the massive data breach last year. Target gave network access to a third-party vendor, a small Pennsylvania company, which did not appear to follow broadly accepted information security practices. Senator John Rockefeller, D-W.Va., on March 25 unveiled the report “A ‘Kill Chain’ Analysis of the 2013 Target Data Breach” It was slated to be discussed at an afternoon hearing on March 26 of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation.”]
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