Target Confirms Point-of-Sale Attacks

U.S. retail giant Target, whose stores were hit in a cyber attack in December, now says that the malicious software used for the theft of millions of credit card data was copying it from the company's sale registers. Target Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Gregg Steinhafel, said in a recent interview that officials detected the presence of malicious software on Sunday, December 15, and by six o'clock that evening, the company's system was safe and secure. Before the...

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