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Report: Target Analyst Raised Security Concerns Months Before Breach
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Target’s computer security staff raised concerns about its payment-card system at least two months before the massive data breach. The Wall Street Journal reports at least one...
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Card Replacements After Target Breach Cost Est. $750K
MINNEPOLIS (WCCO) — The massive Target data breach is having a large impact on not just the company’s customers, but is also costing Minnesota’s credit unions hundreds of thousands of dollars. The...
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Target Faces 1st MN Lawsuit In Data Breach
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Target now faces its first Minnesota lawsuit following the massive data breach that’s believed to have compromised up to 110 million customers’ information. Five rural banks in...
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Minn. Proposes Expanding Data-Breach Notification
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A data breach at hometown retailing giant Target is prompting a look at Minnesota data protection laws. The theft late last year of financial and personal data from millions of...
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Minn. Lawmakers Object To Data-Breach Bill
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Objections to a bill that would expand the victim-notification process after a retail or wholesale business data breach were strident and frequent during a hearing Tuesday...
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Data-Breach Costs Take Toll On Target Profit
NEW YORK (AP) — Looks like Target Corp. will be feeling the financial pain for a while from the theft of credit card numbers and other information from millions of its customers. The nation’s second...
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No Consensus On Notifying Victims Of Data Breaches
WASHINGTON (AP) — The data breach at Target Corp. that exposed millions of credit card numbers has focused attention on the patchwork of state consumer notification laws and renewed a push for a single...
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Target Says It Ignored Early Signs Of Data Breach
NEW YORK (AP) — Target Corp. said in its annual report that a massive security breach has hurt its image and business, while spawning dozens of legal actions, and it noted it can’t estimate how big the...
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Target Data Breach Could Be Made Into A Movie
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – A movie could be made about the massive data breach that affected Target last fall. A Hollywood reporter said Sony has bought the rights to a New York Times article about blogger...
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Fmr. DNR Employee Sentenced In Data Breach
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A former Department of Natural Resources official convicted of illegally accessing drivers’ license data on thousands of Minnesotans has been sentenced. On Monday, 49-year-old John...
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Cyber Cops: Target Hackers May Take Years To Find
WASHINGTON (AP) — Secret Service investigators say they are close to gaining a full understanding of the methods hackers used to breach Target’s computer systems last December. But the agency says it...
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Target Names New Chief Information Officer
NEW YORK (AP) — Target hired a new chief information officer to help overhaul its data security systems in the wake of a massive pre-Christmas data breach. The Minneapolis-based discounter said Tuesday...
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Target Chairman & CEO Out In Wake Of Data Breach
NEW YORK (AP/WCCO) — Target’s massive data breach has now cost the company’s CEO his job. Target announced Monday that Chairman, President and CEO Gregg Steinhafel is out nearly five months after the...
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Target Says Man Used Fraudulent Card In Texas
GEORGETOWN, Texas (AP) — Central Texas police have arrested a man accused of using a fraudulent credit card at a Target department store. A Georgetown police statement Wednesday says Guo Xing Chen has...
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Target Names Interim CEO
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Earlier this week Target’s CEO Gregg Steinhafel stepped down after the massive data breach that occurred last fall. Following his departure, Target named an interim CEO, John...
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Target Ex-CEO’s Pay Fell 35 Percent In Final Year
NEW YORK (AP) — Former Target CEO Gregg Steinhafel’s total pay fell 35 percent to $13 million in his last year at the helm as the company’s board revamped compensation plans amid complaints from...
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ISS Seeks Ouster Of Most Of Target’s Board
NEW YORK (AP) — A prominent proxy advisory firm is recommending that Target shareholders vote out seven of its 10 board members after a massive data breach. Institutional Shareholder Services on...
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Target Names Chief Information Security Officer
NEW YORK (AP) — Target Corp. has named Brad Maiorino as chief information security officer as the company overhauls its security department in the wake of a massive data breach. The nation’s...
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Target 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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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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