Target CEO: “There was malware installed on our point-of-sale registers. That much we’ve established” Target originally said that approximately 40 million credit and debit card accounts may have been impacted by the breach. Names, email addresses, mailing addresses and phone numbers of an additional 70 million people has also been stolen. The company announced Friday that the information was stolen from its systems between Nov. 27 and Dec. 15. Such PoS attacks are not new, but their frequency and the interest of cybercriminals in them has increased during the past year.”]
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