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Target’s Final Tally Shows Dissent Against Board
NEW YORK (AP) — Target Corp.’s final shareholder vote tally is showing some dissent against key board members. All 10 nominees were elected to the board Wednesday at the discounter’s annual...
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Target Lowers Forecast, Estimates Breach Costs
NEW YORK (AP) — Target has lowered its second-quarter forecast citing the promotional discounts it had to use to attract shoppers. The Minneapolis-based retailer also said Tuesday it expects gross...
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Potential Data Breach Revealed By Supervalu
NEW YORK (AP) — A data breach at Supervalu may have impacted as many as 200 of its grocery and liquor stores and potentially affected retail chains recently sold by the company in two dozen states. The...
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Dairy Queen Confirms Potential Data Breach
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Edina-based Dairy Queen is the latest company hit by cyber criminals, as an undisclosed number of stores have reportedly been hit by a data breach. According to Brian Krebs, an...
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Target’s New CEO: ‘We Need To Be Cool Again’
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Target is working to regain customer trust–and its signature style–after last year’s data theft nightmare. Target’s new CEO, Brian Cornell, the first from outside the company, took...
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Jimmy John’s Is The Latest To Be Hit With Data Breach
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Popular sandwich chain Jimmy John’s seems to be the latest victim of a national data breach involving customers’ credit and debit cards. According a press release posted on its...
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Supervalu: Hackers Stole Credit Card Data From Cub Foods
NEW YORK (AP/WCCO) — Card data of Supervalu and Albertsons shoppers may be at risk in another hack, the two supermarket companies said Monday. The companies said that in late August or early September,...
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Dairy Queen Says Data Breached At Stores
NEW YORK (AP) — Ice cream and fast food chain Dairy Queen is the latest retailer to reveal a hack of its customer data. The company said Thursday that hackers may have gained access to customer names,...
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Data Breach At Grand Casino Mille Lacs
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — The Grand Casino Mille Lacs says approximately 1,600 card transactions were accessed by an unauthorized person and used for fraudulent transactions. After finding out on Sept. 15,...
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A Year After Massive Target Data Breach, Still No Arrests
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – It was this time last year when we first learned about a data breach at Target stores nationwide. Target said hackers stole the personal data of 70 million customers, along with...
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Federal Judge Allows Lawsuits Over Target Data Breach
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A federal judge has ruled that customers suing Target for last year’s data breach will be able to move forward with their claims. Target also reportedly faces lawsuits from banks...
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Metropolitan State University Investigates Possible Data Breach
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Metropolitan State University in St. Paul is investigating a data breach that may have involved employee’s Social Security numbers. The university said it recently learned that one...
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300,000 Minnesotans Reportedly Affected By Anthem Data Breach
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – The Minnesota Department of Commerce says that health insurer Anthem, Inc. has reported that the social security numbers of more than 200,000 Minnesotans and the personal...
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Blue Cross Blue Shield Nurse Accused Of Illegally Accessing Patient Records
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A nurse with a history of narcotics theft illegally accessed a state database that contains prescription drug records for 1 million Minnesotans, all under the supervision of...
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Judge OKs $10 Million Settlement In Target Data Breach
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO/AP) – A Minnesota judge has endorsed a settlement in which Target Corp. will pay $10 million to settle a class-action lawsuit over a massive data breach in 2013. About 100 million...
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Target Settles Data Breach Lawsuit With MasterCard For $19M
NEW YORK (AP) — Target and MasterCard say they’ve agreed to settle lawsuits over the discounter’s pre-Christmas 2013 massive data breach. Target said late Wednesday it has set aside up to $19 million...
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Target Reaches Deal To Settle Breach Claims With Visa
NEW YORK (AP) — Target has reached a deal to pay up to $67 million to settle Visa claims related to a massive 2013 data breach that resulted in the theft of millions of debit and credit card numbers....
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State Blames Web Portal For Driver’s License Data Breach
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota officials say driver’s license data on 18 residents was accessed after a password-protected portal was inadvertently opened online. The Department of Public Safety said...
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Lawsuit Alleges MN Agency Data Breach Revealed Fraud Tipster’s Identity
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A tipster who alerted a Minnesota government agency to potential fraud involving unemployment benefits sued Thursday after her identity was mistakenly revealed to the man she...
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Russian Officials, Hackers Charged In Massive Yahoo Data Breach
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States announced charges Wednesday against two Russian intelligence officers and two hackers, accusing them of a mega data breach at Yahoo that affected at least a half...
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Equifax Breach: What You Need To Do Now
NEW YORK (AP) — There’s no way around it: The news from credit reporting company Equifax that 143 million Americans had their information exposed is extremely serious. Crucial pieces of personal data...
View ArticleUnder Armour Hit By MyFitnessPal Data Breach
BALTIMORE (AP) — Sports apparel merchant Under Armour has become the latest victim of a massive digital theft of sensitive information about tens of millions of customers. The Baltimore company...
View ArticlePanera Bread ‘Ignored’ Report Of Leaked Customer Data For Months, Report...
CBS Local — Panera Bread has been accused of leaking the personal information of millions of their customers. The data breach was reportedly discovered in August of 2017 but nothing was done to correct...
View ArticleBest Buy Joins List Of Retailers Hit By [24]7.Ai Data Breach
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO/CNET) — Best Buy has joined a growing list of companies whose customers may have had their information stolen by hackers. As reported by CNET, hundreds of thousands of Delta Airlines,...
View ArticleEquifax: Names, Addresses, Driver’s Licenses Were All Stolen In Breach
WASHINGTON, DC (CBS Local) – Equifax is coming clean on just how devastating the 2017 data breach really was. In a letter to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), officials for the...
View ArticleUber Agrees To $148M Settlement With States Over Data Breach
CHICAGO (AP) — Uber has agreed to pay $148 million and take steps to tighten data security, after the ride-hailing company failed for a year to notify drivers that hackers had stolen their personal...
View ArticleAG Lori Swanson Sues Indiana Company Over Medical Data Hack
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson is suing an Indiana company over a data breach that exposed information of over 8,000 Minnesotans. Swanson filed the lawsuit Monday...
View ArticleRamsey County: Data Of 500 Social Services Clients Hacked
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — The Ramsey County Social Services department says about 500 clients had their health information hacked. The county became aware of unauthorized access to email accounts of Ramsey...
View ArticleRamsey Co. Data Breach Might Have Affected Hundreds
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The personal information of hundreds of Ramsey County social services clients might have been compromised after hackers gained access to the email accounts of dozens of county...
View ArticleLegislative Auditor Reports ‘Major Failure’ By Minn. DPS To Cooperate With...
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — The embattled Minnesota title and registration system, known as MNLARS, is facing a new serious allegation. The agency is accused of failing to cooperate with a state...
View ArticleMinnesota Dept. Of Human Services Reports Data Breach
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The Minnesota Department of Human Services says a data breach potentially exposed personal information on up to 3,000 people. Commissioner Tony Lourey tells legislative leaders...
View ArticleData Breach Affects Several Minnesota Businesses, Including Dunn Bros....
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – A data breach last month might have compromised the credit card information of shoppers at several Minnesota businesses, including a number of Dunn Brothers Coffee locations in the...
View ArticleTwin Cities Buca Di Beppo Locations Possibly Impacted By Data Breach
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Several Buca di Beppo locations across the Twin Cities metro were potentially affected by a data breach compromising payment card data, according to the restaurant’s parent...
View ArticleAttorney General Ellison Reaches Settlement In Data Breach Affecting 38,000...
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison settled a lawsuit Thursday against Premera Blue Cross, an insurance company allegedly responsible for a May 2015 data breach of more than...
View ArticleHy-Vee: Payment Process Breach Reported In July May Have Affected Some...
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Hy-Vee is offering new details on a security breach that affected the system that processes payments at its fuel pumps, coffee shops and restaurants. According to the company, they...
View ArticleStar Tribune Warns Subscribers Of Possible Security Breach
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — On Monday, Star Tribune subscribers were notified of a possible security breach in its website log-in database. The paper says it only stored usernames and passwords there....
View ArticleHackers Gain Access To Minnesota Senate Server ‘For Several Minutes’
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Hackers gained access Tuesday to the Minnesota Senate server, the latest breach of state websites in recent days. In an email to state senators and staff, Secretary of Senate Cal...
View ArticleChildren’s Minnesota Foundation Donor Data Breached
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – The Children’s Minnesota Foundation has said their cloud-based data system, which holds donor information, was breached. In July, the company that provides the foundation with the...
View ArticleHennepin County Sheriff’s Office Working With FBI To Monitor And Respond To...
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — The Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office (HCSO) is working with the FBI to monitor and respond to a web service breach after information from more than 200 police departments, fusion...
View ArticleTarget Shareholders Approve All 10 Board Nominees
NEW YORK (AP) — Target says its shareholders approved all 10 nominees to the company’s board of directors despite recommendations from a prominent proxy advisory firm to get rid of the majority in the...
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